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A 

HISTORICAL  ACCOUNT 


OF  THE 


TREGO  FAMILY 


BY 

A.  TREGO  SHERTZER,  M.  D., 

OF  BALTIMORE,  MD. 


‘  Gather  up  the  fragments  that  remain,  that  nothing  be  lost.’''’ 


BALTIMORE  : 

PRESS  OF  ISAAC  FRI  EDEN  WALD. 
1884. 


Copyright ,  1884,  by  A.  Trego  Shertzer. 


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PREFACE. 

Shortly  before  the  death  of  Charles  B.  Trego 
he  mailed  me  a  copy  of  his  manuscript,  com¬ 
prising  twenty  pages,  of  the  history  of  the 
Trego  family  in  the  United  States,  and  with 
it  his  preface,  to  which  the  reader  is  kindly 
referred.  In  private  letters  he  frequently  stated 
that  he  hoped  some  member  of  the  family 
would  carry  on  the  work,  but  I  could  find 
no  one  willing  to  undertake  the  task,  so  I  re¬ 
solved,  in  honor  to  my  progenitors,  to  com¬ 
plete  the  history  of  the  Trego  family  to  the 
utmost  of  my  ability ;  and  now  that  I  have  fin¬ 
ished  the  work,  with  all  the  material  facts  that  I 
could  gather  after  years  of  toil,  to  me  it  is  yet 
very  unsatisfactory.  As  I  gathered  records  of 
the  family,  I  had  to  rearrange  the  manuscript  to 
some  extent,  which  I  did  reluctantly,  as  I  de¬ 
sired  and  have  given  the  late  Charles  B.  Trego 
credit  for  his  manuscript  where  it  appears  in  the 
work. 

I  am  indebted  to  his  brother,  Robert  S.  Trego, 


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for  much  valuable  assistance  in  furnishing  me 
with  copies  of  Monthly  Meetings,  family  records, 
&c.,  as  well  as  to  other  members  of  the  family. 
As  all  the  information  contained  in  the  work  was 
gotten  by  fragments,  through  a  series  of  years, 
I  found  it  impossible  to  arrange  the  material  in  a 
proper  manner  without  rewriting  the  whole  of 
it  for  the  fourth  time,  which  I  had  no  desire  to 
do  in  the  first  edition ;  but  if  every  reader  will 
write  me  positive  facts  of  missing  information, 
and  correct  errors,  giving  the  page  and  line,  I 
will  revise,  correct  and  issue  a  second  edition. 
I  have  drawn  a  genealogical  chart  of  the  family 
which  will  be  printed  if  this  work  is  a  success, 
which  will  enable  the  reader  to  fully  understand 
the  family  records  as  read.  It  will  appear  in  the 
second  edition. 

I  would  like  to  have  the  portraits  of  Peter, 
Sr.,  and  his  family,  if  any  are  in  existence,  for  the 
second  edition  of  the  work.  Will  also  insert 
the  photograph  of  any  member  of  the  family 
for  $50. 

A.  Trego  Shertzer,  M.  D. 

83  E.  Baltimore  St.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

October  10  th,  1884. 


PREFACE 


To  Manuscript  of  the  late  Charles  B.  Trego. 

1863. 

Having  for  a  long  time  regretted  that  so  little 
was  known  by  the  Tregos  of  Pennsylvania  con¬ 
cerning  their  origin  and  descent,  I,  more  than 
twenty  years  ago,  began  to  collect  such  facts  as 
appeared  best  calculated  to  elucidate  the  history 
of  the  family.  This  task  I  have  diligently  pur¬ 
sued  ever  since,  availing  myself  of  every  oppor¬ 
tunity  that  was  presented,  and,  though  by  no 
means  so  successful  as  I  desired,  yet  have  gath¬ 
ered  a  mass  of  information,  which  may  be  inter¬ 
esting  to  those  members  of  the  family  who  may 
feel  an  interest  in  the  subject. 

I  much  regret  that  I  did  not  commence  this 
task  before  the  death  of  my  grandfather,  William 
Trego,  who  died  in  1827.  His  memory  would 
doubtless  have  furnished  many  facts  which  I 
have  been  unable  to  ascertain,  and  which  have 
now  passed  away  forever.  The  Tregos,  from 


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their  earliest  settlement  in  this  country,  have 
mostly  belonged  to  the  Society  of  Friends,  and 
records  of  that  Society,  though  in  many  cases 
defective,  have  supplied  me  with  an  amount  of 
authentic  information  which  could  not  have  been 
obtained  from  any  other  source.  The  records  of 
ancient  deeds,  land  titles  and  other  documents 
have  also  been  consulted.  I  have  brought  this 
account  up  to  a  certain  period,  and  have  left 
blank  pages  throughout,  in  which  may  be  in¬ 
serted  corrections  or  any  additional  facts  which 
may  be  discovered. 

Imperfect  as  it  is,  I  now  leave  this  history  in 
the  hope  that  some  member  of  the  family  will 
continue  the  work,  and  make  such  corrections 
and  additions  as  will  render  it  more  worthy  of 
preservation  through  future  years. 

Charles  B.  Trego. 


Philadelphia,  1863. 


HISTORY  OF  THE  TREGO  FAMILY. 


The  following  account  of  the  Trego  family  in 
the  United  States  has  been  collected  from  the 
most  authentic  accounts  that  could  be  obtained 
at  this  late  day ;  but  the  neglect  in  preserving  the 
family  records  of  early  times  has  left  some  ob¬ 
scurity  and  uncertainty  with  regard  to  some  of 
the  early  patriarchs  of  the  name.  This  uncer¬ 
tainty  must  remain  until  some  documents  or 
records  shall  be  found  to  remove  it,  for  there  ap¬ 
pears  to  be  no  one  now  living  whose  memory  can 
supply  any  traditionary  account  to  throw  further 
light  upon  the  subject.  Fifty,  or  perhaps  even 
thirty,  years  ago  there  were  those  living  who 
might  have  given  important  information,  from 
recollection  of  what  they  had  heard  when  young ; 
but  now  it  is  to  be  feared  that  there  is  little 
probability  of  ever  ascertaining  many  desirable 
facts,  the  knowledge  of  which  has  probably 
passed  away  forever  with  those  who  had  it  in 
possession. 


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The  name  Trego  is  undoubtedly  of  Spanish 
origin,  and  persons  of  that  name  are  said  to 
be  residing  in  Madrid,  Spain.  It  is  also  known 
in  the  province  of  Yucatan  in  Mexico.  Mr. 
Stephens,  in  his  book  of  travels  in  that  country, 
mentions  a  Sefior  Trego  in  Yucatan,  a  man  of 
large  possessions  and  influence,  by  whom  he  was 
kindly  entertained. 

Our  family,  according  to  all  accounts,  are  de¬ 
scended  from  a  family  of  French  Huguenots  of 
the  same  name  who  were  forced  to  leave  France 
in  consequence  of  religious  persecution,  about 
the  time  of  the  revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes, 
in  the  year  1685.  This  famous  edict,  allowing  lib¬ 
erty  of  conscience  to  the  Protestants  and  permit¬ 
ting  the  public  exercise  of  their  religion  in  certain 
parts  of  the  kingdom,  was  issued  by  Henry  IV, 
King  of  France,  in  1598.  It  was  revoked  by 
Louis  XIV  in  1685,  when  a  series  of  the  most 
cruel  persecutions  were  commenced  against  the 
Huguenots,  by  which  name  the  French  Protest¬ 
ants  were  then  known. 

A  French  historian  (Boulainvilliers)  says  that 
one  hundred  thousand  persons  were  sacrificed, 
and  of  that  number  the  tenth  part  perished  in  the 
flames,  by  the  gibbet,  or  on  the  wheel.  To  pre- 


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vent  the  persecuted  and  devoted  Huguenots  from 
escaping  from  the  country,  severe  laws  were  en¬ 
acted  against  emigration  ;  but,  notwithstanding 
this,  many  of  them  succeeded  in  leaving  France. 
Another  French  writer,  whose  work  was  pub¬ 
lished  in  1698,  speaking  of  observations  made 
during  his  travels  in  England,  says  that  so  great 
was  the  number  of  French  emigrants  in  London 
that  there  were  twenty-two  French  churches  sup¬ 
ported  by  the  government:  about  three  thousand 
refugees  were  maintained  by  public  subscription, 
many  received  grants  from  the  Crown,  and  a 
great  number  lived  by  their  own  industry. 

About  this  time  many  persons  were  leaving 
England,  to  settle  in  the  new  colony  founded  in 
America  by  William  Penn,  in  1681,  and  as  most 
of  them  were  Friends,  or  Quakers,  who  left 
England  in  order  that  they  might  enjoy,  in 
Pennsylvania,  religious  freedom  and  the  unmo¬ 
lested  privilege  of  worship  according  to  the 
dictates  of  their  conscience,  it  was  natural  that 
they  should  be  joined  by  some  of  the  French 
Huguenots  then  in  England,  who  had  left  their 
own  country  for  conscience  sake  and  to  escape 
persecution  on  account  of  their  religion. 

There  is  a  tradition,  in  both  the  Bucks  and 


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Chester  County  branches  of  the  Trego  family, 
that  three  brothers,  named  William,  James,  and 
John  Trego  (the  latter  being  probably  Jacob  in¬ 
stead  of  John),  being,  with  many  other  Protestants 
driven  out  of  France  by  persecution,  sought 
refuge  in  England,  and  there  learning  that 
William  Penn  had  founded  a  new  colony  in 
America,  where  liberty  of  conscience  and  wor¬ 
ship  was  permitted  to  all,  they  left  England, 
came  to  Pennsylvania,  and  settled  in  that  part  of 
Chester  County  from  which  the  County  of  Dela¬ 
ware  has  since  been  formed.  Settling  among 
Friends,  they  naturally  attached  themselves  to 
that  society. 

It  is  most  probable,  however,  that  some  of 
the  name  remained  in  England.  Charles  B. 
Trego  says  in  his  manuscript :  In  the  year  1848 
I  happened  to  learn  that  there  was  a  person  in 
London  named  William  Trego,  of  some  note 
as  an  architect  and  builder,  and  hoping  to  learn 
something  of  interest  concerning  the  family,  I 
wrote  to  him  requesting  information.  He  was 
too  much  engaged  in  business  to  answer  my 
inquiries  ;  but  I  received  several  letters  from  his 
father,  John  Trego,  and  from  his  cousin,  William 
Trego,  telling  what  they  knew  of  the  English 


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branch  of  the  family.  They  were  unable  to  trace 
their  descent  further  back  than  to  a  John  Trego, 
who,  when  a  young  man,  came  from  Bridgeport, 
in  Somersetshire,  to  Plymouth,  and  was  master 
rope-maker  in  the  Government  dock-yard  at  that 
place.  He  died  about  the  year  1778,  at  the  age 
of  73  years,  which  would  make  the  period  of 
his  birth  about  the  year  1705.  They  also  stated 
that  one  of  the  family,  named  Edward  Trego, 
came  to  America  at  some  time  from  1770  to 
1780.  There  are  numbers  of  them  in  England, 
mostly  in  Devonshire,  and  about  Plymouth.  I 
have  heard  of  Tregos  in  New  England ;  they 
may  be  descendants  from  this  Edward  Trego 
who  came  to  America,  about  one  hundred  and 
ten  to  twenty  years  ago. 

Let  us  now  see  how  far  the  family  tradition  of 
three  brothers  having  come  from  France  to 
America  by  way  of  England,  is  supported  by 
facts  upon  record.  If  three  brothers  left  France, 
it  is  possible  that  two  of  them  remained  in  Eng¬ 
land,  or  that  they  were  very  young  when  they 
came  to  America,  and  were  the  sons  of  Peter 
Trego ,  of  whom  no  family  tradition  appears  to 
exist;  but  who  is  proved,  by  written  evidence, 
to  have  been  an  inhabitant  of  that  part  of  Chester, 


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which  is  now  Delaware  County,  as  early  as  the 
year  1690,  and  to  have  been  then  of  mature  age. 
He  was  doubtless  the  first  of  the  name  in  Penn¬ 
sylvania. 

In  a  “History  of  Delaware  County,”  by  Dr. 
George  Smith,  published  in  1862,  among 
notices  of  a  number  of  the  early  settlers  within 
the  limits  of  that  County,  is  the  following : 

Peter  Trego  was  probably  a  resident  of  some 
other  place  in  the  county  before  he  made  a  pur¬ 
chase  of  fifty  acres  of  land  in  1708,  in  Middle- 
town,  for  £ 14 ,  or  good  merchantable  wheat  at 
market  price.  His  wife’s  name  was  Judith,  and 
he  had  a  son  Jacob  and  a  son  Peter.  Jacob  was 
born  in  1687,  and  in  1710  married  Mary,  the 
daughter  of  Edmund  Cartledge  of  Darby,  and 
resided  in  Merion  till  1717,  when  he  removed  to 
Middletown,  where  he  resided  at  the  time  of  his 
decease  in  1720.  He  left  three  children,  “Han¬ 
nah,  John  and  Rachel.” 

My  records  show  that  Jacob  Trego,  also  had 
a  daughter  Mary,  who  married  a  Mr.  White,  of 
whom  an  account  will  be  given  later. 

Robert  S.  Trego,  brother  of  the  late  Charles  B. 
Trego,  who  has  rendered  me  much  valuable 
assistance  in  this  work,  lately  found  upon  exami- 


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ning  the  records  of  Friends  Monthly  Meeting 
at  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  the  following  record  : 

Peter  Trego  was  born  in  France  in  1655,  as 
shown  by  records  in  the  family  of  Absalom 
Trego: 

Children  of  Peter  and  Judith  Trego. 

Jacob,  born  8th  mo.,  7th,  1687 ;  died  4th  m., 
10th,  1720. 

James,  born  4th  mo.,  26th,  1690. 

William,  born  6th  mo.,  3d,  1693;  died  1770. 

John,  born  12th  mo.,  15th,  1696. 

Ann,  born  8th  mo.,  28th,  1702. 

Peter  and  Judith  Trego  also  had  a  son  Peter 
of  whose  birth  there  appears  to  be  no  record, 
though  there  is  of  his  marriage  to  Ann  Whit¬ 
aker,  nth  mo.,  5th,  1726. 

The  records  of  Friends  Monthly  Meeting  at 
Chester  show  that  Peter  Trego,  Jr.,  son  of  Peter 
and  Judith  Trego  of  Middletown,  was  married 
to  Ann  Whitaker,  daughter  of  Charles  and 
Hannah  Whitaker,  of  Ridley,  1  ith  mo.,  5th,  1726, 
at  Providence.  Peter  Trego,  Jr.,  appears  to  have 
resided  in  Providence  township.  According  to 
the  same  Meeting  records  it  appears  that  the 
elder  Peter  had  also  a  daughter  named  Ann ; 
the  records  showing  that  James  Rushton,  M.  D., 


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of  Middletown,  and  Ann  Trego,  daughter  of 
Peter  and  Judith  Trego,  of  the  same  place,  were 
married  at  Middletown  Meeting  House  nth  of 
6th  month,  1725. 

The  notice  of  Peter  Trego  in  Dr.  Smith’s 
History  of  Delaware  County  appears  to  contain 
an  error.  Peter  Trego,  had  purchased  fifty  acres 
of  land  in  Middletown  before  1708, — though  he 
may  have  then  purchased  fifty  acres  more. 

His  sons  were  Jacob,  Peter,  William,  James 
and  John.  By  the  records  in  the  land  office  of 
Pennsylvania,  it  appears  that  a  warrant  for  fifty 
acres  of  land  was  granted  to  Peter  Trego  on  the 
10th  of  October,  1690,  from  William  Penn’s 
Commissioners  of  Property,  William  Markham, 
Robert  Turner  and  John  Goodson. 

Williard’s  History  of  the  United  States,  says 
that  William  Penn  received  his  grant  of  Penn¬ 
sylvania  from  Charles  the  Second,  March  4th, 

1681.  William  Penn  set  sail  for  America,  Sept. 
9th,  1682,  with  three  ships  loaded  with  emigrants 
and  consigned  to  the  care  of  his  nephew,  Colonel 
Markham.  He  left  Chester  on  board  the  Welcome, 
and  with  one  hundred  settlers  sailed  for  his 
province,  landing  at  Newcastle,  October  28th, 

1682.  Here  a  part  of  the  pioneers  with  Mark- 


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ham  began  a  settlement.  From  writings  and 
traditional  accounts  I  think  there  is  no  doubt 
but  that  Peter  Trego,  and  his  wife  Judith,  came 
over  in  one  of  the  three  ships  which  landed  in 
this  country,  October  28th,  1682.  The  fifty  acres 
of  land  which  were  granted  to  Peter  Trego,  were 
situated  on  the  ridge  between  Chester  and  Ridley 
Creeks,  in  the  township  of  Middletown,  now  in 
Delaware  County,  within  half  a  mile  of  the 
present  Lima  Post  Office.  It  afterwards  ap¬ 
peared,  however,  that  this  land  had  been  pre¬ 
viously  granted  to  Joseph  Ege,  and  had  been 
surveyed  and  laid  out  for  him  by  Robert  Lang- 
shore,  deputy  surveyor  general,  on  the  13th  day 
of  October,  1686,  four  years  before  the  grant  to 
Peter  Trego.  The  title  of  Peter  Trego  to  this 
land  was,  therefore,  not  confirmed.  Joseph  Ege 
sold  the  land  to  Randal  Malin,  but  the  convey¬ 
ance  was  not  executed.  Afterwards  on  the  1  ith 
day  of  December,  1694,  Joseph  Ege  and  Randal 
Malin  conveyed  this  tract  to  Peter  Trego,  for 
two  pounds  and  five  shillings. 

December  10th,  1725,  Peter  Trego  and  Judith 
his  wife,  conveyed  this  land  to  William  Trego, 
probably  their  son,  for  fifty  pounds ;  but  the 
deed  was  not  acknowledged  until  Febuary  9th, 


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1735.  when  Peter  Trego  being  deceased,  having 
died  in  1730,  two  of  the  witnesses  appeared 
before  a  magistrate  and  proved  that  the  deed 
was  sealed  and  delivered  by  the  said  Peter  Trego. 

On  the  10th  day.  of  November,  1733,  the  said 
William  Trego  and  Margaret  (Moore)  his  wife, 
then  of  Goshen  in  Chester  County,  conveyed  to 
James  Trego  of  Concord,  probably  his  brother, 
the  above  mentioned  tract  of  land  for  fifty 
pounds,  the  deeds  being  acknowledged  by  Wil¬ 
liam  Trego  himself  as  his  act  and  deed,  before 
Caleb  Coupland,  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  on  the 
25th  of  12  month,  1735. 

January  20th,  1735,  the  said  James  Trego  and 
Elizabeth  his  wife,  then  of  Whiteland  township, 
Chester  County,  conveyed  this  land  to  Thomas 
Minshall,  of  Middletown,  for  seventy  pounds; 
the  deeds  were  acknowledged  before  Thomas 
North,  5th  month,  23d,  1764.  This  tract  adjoined 
lands  taken  up  by  the  Minshall  family  at  a  very 
early  period,  and  from  Minshall  Painter,  one  of 
their  descendants,  I  [Charles  B.  Trego,  of  Phila¬ 
delphia]  have  lately  received  this  account  of  the 
taking  up  and  transfer  of  the  above-mentioned 
fifty  acres,  as  shown  by  ancient  deeds  in  the  pos¬ 
session  of  Enos  Painter,  his  father,  the  present 


owner  of  the  land.  In  a  letter  to  me  [Charles  B. 
Trego]  dated  June  30th,  1847,  he  gives  the  fol¬ 
lowing  imitation  of  the  signatures  of  Peter, 
William  and  James  Trego,  and  of  their  wives 
Judith,  Margaret  and  Elizabeth,  to  the  old  deeds. 

I  am  unable  to  find  the  imitations  amongst  the 
records  of  the  late  Charles  B.  Trego,  hence  am 
unable  to  give  them. 

The  records  of  the  Land  Office  at  Harrisburg, 
also  show  that  250  acres  of  land  in  Chester 
County,  were  granted  to  James  Trego,  1st  mo., 
23,  1713-4,  and  200  acres  to  William  Trego,  1st 
mo.,  25,  1718.  These  were  doubtless  the  sons  of 
Peter  Trego. 

Among  the  ancient  records  of  Chester  County 
Court  is  the  following  report  of  a  coroner’s  jury, 
by  which  it  appears  that  one  of  the  jury  was 
Peter  Trego: — Edgmont,  the  sixth  of  the  fifth 
month  1699,  we  whoses  names  are  underwritten, 
summoned  and  attested  by  the  Coroner  to  view 
the  body  of  Sarah  Baker,  having  made  strict 
enquery,  and  also  having  had  what  witnesses 
could  be  found,  attested  to  what  they  knew,  and 
wee  can  find  noe  other  but  that  it  pleased 
almighty  God  to  visit  her  with  death  by  the 
force  of  Thunder,  and  to  this  wee  all  unanimously 


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agree.  Subscribed  with  our  names  the  day  and 
year  above  written.  Thomas  Worrilaw,  William 
Coeburne,  Thomas  Bowater,  Robert  Pennell, 
Peter  Trego,  William  Gregory,  John  Worrall, 
Ephiran  Jackson,  Charles  Whitaker,  Joseph 
Baker,  David  Ogden,  John  Turner.  [See 
Hazard’s  Register  of  Pennsylvania,  Vol.  5,  page 
159]. 

While  in  France  in  1870  and  1871, 1  examined 
many  old  records,  in  which  I  could  frequently 
find  the  name  of  Tregue,  of  the  House  of  Bour¬ 
bons,  but  in  my  correspondence  with  the  late 
Charles  B.  Trego,  he  stated,  inasmuch  as  I 
could  not  trace  any  connection  between  the 
Tregues  of  France  and  Peter  Trego,  it  would 
be  useless  to  take  notes. 

Charles  B.  Trego  says  in  his  MS. :  “  In  the  year 
1848,  I  obtained  from  Jarad  Pinkney  Irwin,  then 
of  Brandywine  Manor,  Chester  County,  but 
since  removed  to  Illinois,  much  valuable  informa¬ 
tion  concerning  the  Tregos  of  Chester  County. 
His  mother  was  one  of  the  family,  and  was,  he 
said,  the  oldest  Trego  then  living.  From  her 
recollections  and  from  some  defaced  and  almost 
worn-out  records  then  in  possession  of  Absalom 
Trego,  of  Honeybrook,  Chester  County,  then  an 


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old  man,  still  occupying  a  homestead  which  had 
been  long  in  the  family,  Mr.  Irwin  had  been 
able  to  make  out  quite  a  well-connected  account 
of  the  descendants  of  William,  the  son  of  Peter 
and  Judith  Trego,  but  of  their  sons  Jacob,  Peter, 
James  and  John,  there  is  no  account  in  the  old 
Honeybrook  records,  which  appear  to  relate 
entirely  to  the  family  of  William.” 

Mr.  Irwin  sent  Charles  B.  Trego  a  genea¬ 
logical  record  in  the  form  of  a  tree  (which  I  now 
have  in  my  possession),  beginning  with  Peter 
Trego,  born  in  France  1655,  died  in  Chester 
County  1730,  and  gives  his  three  sons,  James, 
born  1691;  William,  bom  1693,  died  1770;  and 
John,  born  1695.  This  portion  of  his  account 
I  think  cannot  be  relied  upon,  and  he  does  not 
say  that  he  found  these  names  and  dates  in  the 
old  family  records  at  Honeybrook,  which  appear 
to  have  been  confined  to  the  family  of  William 
Trego  only.  He  is  certainly  mistaken  in  omit¬ 
ting  Jacob  and  Peter,  of  whom  we  find  accounts 
elsewhere  to  prove  their  existence. 

Dr.  Smith  in  his  history  of  Delaware  County, 
says  that  Peter  Trego  had  a  son  Jacob,  born  in 
1687,  and  the  records  of  Darby  Monthly  Meeting 
show  that  Jacob  Trego  and  Mary  Cartledge  were 


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married  at  Darby  in  1709,  and  the  records  of  the 
Monthly  Meeting  at  Chester  show  that  Peter, 
the  son  of  Peter  and  Judith  Trego,  was  married 
to  Ann  Whitaker,  in  1726. 

William  Trego,  the  son  of  Peter  the  elder, 
according  to  the  Honeybrook  family  records,  was 
born  August  5th,  1693,  married  Margaret  Moore, 
June  26th,  1717,  and  died  1770.  The  land  in 
Honeybrook  township,  afterwards  and  yet  owned 
by  the  Tregos,  was  first  entered  by  John  Moore, 
the  father-in-law  of  William  Trego,  in  March, 
1718,  and  in  1733,  was  conveyed  to  William 
Trego.  This  tract  is  described  in  the  deed  as 
“joining  on  the  west  by  lands  of  James  Trego.” 
Now  it  has  been  already  shown  that  in  November 
of  the  same  year,  the  old  homestead  of  their 
father  Peter,  in  Middletown,  was  conveyed  by 
William  Trego,  then  of  Goshen,  to  James  Trego 
of  Concord.  It  would  seem  from  this  that 
neither  William  nor  James  resided  at  that  time 
on  their  lands  in  Honeybrook. 

Jarad  P.  Irwin  in  his  letter  to  Chas.  B.  Trego, 
written  April  10th,  1848,  says  that  William  and 
Margaret  Trego  had  ten  children,  four  sons  and 
six  daughters,  though  I  am  unable  to  find  any 
mention  made  of  but  nine,  though  I  have  no 


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doubt  but  that  the  statement  was  correct,  as  he 
says  one  of  the  sons  died  quite  young;  the  other 
three  were  named  William,  Benjamin  and  Joseph. 
William  and  Joseph  settled  in  Honeybrook 
township,  in  the  northwestern  part  of  Chester 
County,  and  Benjamin  on  the  old  homestead  in 
Goshen,  on  part  of  which  a  portion  of  the  town 
of  West  Chester  now  stands.  I  have  been  in¬ 
formed  that  when  the  seat  of  Justice  for  that 
County  was  removed  from  Chester,  now  Dela¬ 
ware  County,  the  ground  for  the  new  court  house 
and  public  buildings  was  given  for  that  purpose 
by  Benjamin  Trego. 

The  six  daughters  of  William  and  Margaret 
Trego  became  respectively  by  marriage  Hannah 
Hickman,  Margaret  McPherson,  Elizabeth  Malin, 
Mary  Malin,  these  last  two  having  married 
brothers,  sons  of  Randal  Malin,  Ann  Hunt,  and 
Sarah  Eachus.  Many  persons  having  these 
family  names  still  reside  in  Chester  and  Dela¬ 
ware  Counties,  who  are  probably  their  descend¬ 
ants. 

The  second  William  Trego,  son  of  William 
and  Margaret,  was  born  1726,  and  his  sons  were 
Isaac,  Reuben,  Peter  and  Jacob  ;  he  had  one 
daughter  who  became  by  marriage  Hannah 


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Clemson.  These  all  had  families,  and  have 
many  descendants  yet  living  in  Chester,  Lan¬ 
caster,  Juniata,  and  other  counties.  Peter  was 
my  great-grandfather. 

Benjamin,  son  of  William  and  Margaret  Trego, 
was  born  1730,  had  two  sons  and  four  daughters. 
The  sons  were  named  Emmor  and  Benjamin  ; 
both  of  them  died  unmarried,  so  that  the  name 
by  that  branch  is  extinct. 

Joseph,  son  of  William  and  Margaret  Trego, 
born  in  1732,  died  1806,  married  Alice  Piersol 
and  had  seven  sons,  William,  Moses,  Joseph, 
Eli,  James,  Jeremiah  and  Absalom.  The  daugh¬ 
ters  were  Alice  Millison,  Margaret  Irwin,  Han¬ 
nah  Lewis,  and  Sarah,  who  never  married. 

Of  the  sons  of  Joseph  Trego,  two,  Joseph  and 
James,  appear  to  have  left  no  descendants ;  the 
others  had  each  a  number  of  children  and  have 
a  numerous  posterity.  Many  of  them  remain 
in  Chester  County ;  others  are  settled  in  the 
counties  of  Columbia  and  Cumberland,  Pennsyl¬ 
vania,  and  a  number  of  them  have  gone  to  reside 
in  Ohio,  Illinois,  and  other  western  states. 

It  has  already  been  shown  that  the  patriarch, 
Peter  Trego,  had  a  son  James  who  resided  in 
Concord  in  1733.  The  records  of  Chester 


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Monthly  Meeting  show  that  a  certificate  of  remo¬ 
val  from  Concord  to  Goshen,  was  granted  to 
James  Trego  and  family,  6th  mo.,  4th,  1735.  His 
family  consisted  of  himself  and  wife,  for  it  will  be 
shown  elsewhere  that  he  died  young,  leaving  no 
children.  He  owned  land  in  Honeybrook  about 
that  time,  and  was  taxable  in  Marple  township  in 
1722.  That  he  was  married  appears  by  the  sig¬ 
nature  of  his  wife  Elizabeth,  to  the  deed  con¬ 
veying  the  original  fifty  acres  in  Middletown  to 
Thomas  Minshall,  in  1735,  but  of  his  children-, 
if  he  had  any,  there  appears  to  be  no  record  or 
account  preserved.  Neither  have  I  been  able  to 
learn  anything  concerning  the  children  of  Peter 
Trego,  junior,  who  was  married  to  Ann  Whit¬ 
aker  in  1726.  It  is  to  be  presumed  that  they 
never  had  any.  There  was  a  John  Trego, 
called  “sailor  John,”  who  many  years  ago  some¬ 
times  visited  both  the  Chester  and  the  Bucks 
County  Tregos  as  a  relative;  but  all  knowledge 
of  his  parentage  appears  to  be  lost.  He  may 
have  been  a  son  of  James  or  of  Peter,  Jr.  Mr. 
Irvin  says  that  his  mother,  a  Trego  born  in  1767, 
remembered  a  John  Trego,  called  “sailor  Jack,” 
who  once  visited  them  when  she  was  a  small  girl, 
say  about  the  year  1773,  and  that  he  then  ap- 


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peared  to  be  thirty  or  forty  years  of  age.  This 
would  fix  the  period  of  his  birth  not  far  from  the 
year  1733.  It  will  be  remembered  that  John,  son 
of  Peter,  Sr.,  was  born  12th  mo.,  15th,  1696,  and 
that  this  John  might  have  been  a  son  of  James  or 
Peter,  Jr.,  when  we  know  that  James  Trego  was 
married  and  lived  in  Concord  township ;  and 
that  Peter,  Jr.,  who  lived  in  Providence  township, 
was  married  in  1726. 

Charles  B.  Trego,  says  in  his  manuscript,  that 
he  remembered  hearing  his  grandfather  and  some 
of  the  older  members  of  the  family  in  Bucks 
County,  speak  of  a  “sailor  John,”  who  sometimes 
appeared  amongst  them  as  a  visitor,  and  probably 
was  a  distant  relative. 

Jared  P.  Irwin,  in  one  of  his  letters  to  Charles 
B.  Trego,  says  :  William  Trego,  my  great-grand¬ 
father,  died  in  Goshen,  Chester  County,  about  the 
year  1770.  James,  the  third  son  of  Peter,  died 
rather  young,  I  think  in  celibacy.  But  this  is  a 
mistake  as  is  shown  by  the  signature  of  his  wife 
Elizabeth  to  the  ancient  deed  already  mentioned, 
though  I  think  there  is  no  doubt  but  that  he  died 
without  leaving  or  ever  having  any  children. 

John,  son  of  Jacob  and  grandson  of  Peter, 
was  born  in  1714  and  died  in  1790;  he  left 


Goshen,  and  settled  in  Bucks  County,  and  mar¬ 
ried  there,  though  I  am  unable  to  learn  when  he 
moved  to  Bucks  County,  or  who  he  married.  He 
afterwards  visited  his  friends  in  Chester  County, 
with  his  wife  and  children,  one  of  whom  had  red 
hair ,  which  was  a  subject  of  general  remark,  as  he 
was  the  first  of  the  name  known  to  have  red  hair. 
Up  to  this  date,  1884, 1  have  been  unable  to  dis¬ 
cover  any  other  member  of  the  family  having  red 
hair. 

The  Trego  family  all  had  jet  black  hair,  deep 
blue  eyes,  peaked  noses,  were  straight,  tall  and 
portly,  their  hair  inclining  to  become  gray  at  about 
thirty  years  of  age.  Mr.  Irwin  further  says  that 
the  William  Trego  mentioned  above,  had  ten 
children,  of  whom  three  were  boys,  William, 
Benjamin  and  Joseph.  Of  these  ten  children, 
Joseph,  the  grandfather  of  Mr.  Irwin,  was  the 
youngest,  and  was  born  Feb.  21st,  1732;  I  am 
unable  to  learn  when  he  died.  He  and  his 
brother  William  settled  in  Honeybrook  township, 
in  the  northwestern  part  of  Chester  County. 

Joseph  had  eleven  children,  seven  sons  and 
four  daughters,  and  many  of  his  descendants 
still  reside  in  the  neighborhood  of  Honey- 
brook.  Benjamin  remained  on  the  old  home- 


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stead.  One  of  his'  granddaughters  is  now  the 
wife  of  John  Rutter,  Esq.,  a  member  of  the  West 
Chester  bar.  There  seems  to  have  been  no  inter¬ 
course  or  acquaintance  between  the  Chester  and 
Bucks  County  branches  of  the  Trego  family  for 
the  last  sixty  or  eighty  years,  and  perhaps  more. 
They  had  almost  lost  all  knowledge  of  each 
others  existence,  and  it  was  not  until  the  winter  of 
1835  and  6,  when  I  [Chas.  B.  Trego]  was  serving 
as  a  member  of  the  Legislature  at  Harrisburg, 
that  I  had  ever  seen  a  person  named  Trego, 
except  those  of  my  own  immediate  family  rela¬ 
tions  in  Bucks  County.  At  Harrisburg  I  became 
acquainted  with  Eli  and  Joseph  Trego,  sons  of 
Moses  Trego,  who  was  one  of  the  seven  sons  of 
Joseph  Trego  of  Honeybrook,  as  above  men¬ 
tioned.  Eli  then  lived  near  Harrisburg  in  Berks 
County,  where  he  had  an  iron  furnace;  but  after¬ 
wards  removed  several  times  from  one  furnace  to 
another.  He  now,  1847,  resides  in  Danville, 
Columbia  County,  where  he  is,  or  was,  a  Justice 
of  the  Peace.  His  brothers,  John  and  Joseph, 
reside  in  Cumberland  County,  about  seven  miles 
west  of  Carlisle.  Both  own  good  farms;  Joseph’s 
is  adjoining  or  near  that  now  owned  and  occu¬ 
pied  by  Governor  Ritner  at  Mount  Rock ;  and 


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John’s  a  little  more  to  the  southward.  Their 
sister,  Mrs.  Mary  McKeehan,  also  resides  in  the 
same  neighborhood.  In  1840,  while  engaged 
in  that  part  of  the  country  on  the  geological 
survey  of  the  State,  I  frequently  visited  them  ; 
and  had  my  quarters  for  some  time  at  the 
“Stone  Tavern,”  on  the  road  from  Carlisle  to 
Shippensburg,  then  kept  by  Jacob  Trego,  a  son 
of  John.  Some  time  during  the  following  sum¬ 
mer,  my  duties  on  the  State  Survey  called  me  to 
Georgetown,  a  little  village  on  the  eastern  bank 
of  the  Susquehanna  about  ten  miles  below  Sun- 
bury,  in  Northumberland  County,  a  rough  and 
wild  region,  mostly  inhabited  by  Germans,  and 
little  visited  by  strangers  or  travellers.  Here  I  met 
with  two  men  named  Trego,  who  had  lived  there 
from  their  youth,  and  from  long  association  with 
people  speaking  only  German,  had  become  assim¬ 
ilated  in  language,  habits  and  manners,  with  the 
population  of  the  place.  I  understood  that  they 
were  sons  of  Jeremiah  Trego,  a  brother  of  Moses, 
above  mentioned, — this  Jeremiah  having  settled 
in  that  neighborhood  many  years  before,  as  a 
teacher.  But  judging  from  the  present  state  ot 
intellectual  cultivation  among  the  people,  his 
literary  qualifications  were  either  not  of  a  very 


high  order,  or  he  was  unsuccessful  in  planting  the 
tree  of  knowledge  in  that  soil  so  deeply  as  to 
produce  much  fruit  in  after  years. 

It  is  now  time  to  speak  of  Jacob,  the  other  son 
of  Peter  and  Judith  Trego,  he  being  the  proge¬ 
nitor  of  the  Bucks  County  branch  of  the  Trego 
family.  Dr.  Smith’s  History  of  Delaware  County, 
informs  us  that  he  was  born  in  1687,  and  in  1710, 
married  Mary,  the  daughter  of  Edmund  and  Mary 
Cartledge  of  Darby,  and  resided  in  Merion  until 
1717,  when  he  removed  to  Middletown,  where 
he  resided  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1720. 

The  records  of  the  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends 
at  Darby  show  that  at  a  meeting  held  loth  mo., 
7th,  1709,  Jacob  Trego  of  Middletown,  Chester 
County,  and  Mary  Cartledge  of  Darby,  declared 
their  intention  of  marriage.  At  the  next  Monthly 
Meeting,  nth  mo.,  4th,  1709,  they  were  left  at 
liberty  to  proceed  in  marriage,  and  at  the 
following  meeting,  12 th  mo.,  1st,  1709,  the  mar¬ 
riage  was  reported  as  accomplished. 

He  left  three  children,  Hannah,  John  and 
Rachel.  The  records  of  Chester  Monthly  Meet¬ 
ing  contain  the  following  entry : 

Children  of  Jacob  and  Mary  (Cartledge)  Trego. 

John,  born  5th  mo.,  6th,  1715. 


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Rachel,  born  7th  mo.,  27th,  1719. 

Hannah  (no  record  of  birth),  died  4th  mo., 
I  Oth,  1720. 

Rachel,  born  7th  mo.,  27th,  1719,  daughter  of 
Jacob  and  Mary  Trego,  married  Joseph  Johnson 
of  Wrightstown;  they  had  five  children,  David, 
born  1747;  Mary,  born  1749;  John,  born  1752; 
Samuel,  born  1755;  and  Joseph,  1759.  I  know 
nothing  of  her  sister  Hannah,  except  that  she 
died  4th  mo.,  10th,  1720. 

Mary  Cartledge  was  the  daughter  of  Edmund 
and  Mary  Cartledge,  and  was  born,  8th  mo , 
25th,  1685. 

Edmund  Cartledge  came  from  the  county  of 
Darby,  Derbyshire,  England,  and  settled  in 
Darby  township,  Delaware  County,  in  1683, 
with  his  wife  Mary.  He  was  a  faithful  member 
of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  took  part  in  the 
performance  of  public  duties  of  a  citizen.  He 
was  a  purchaser  while  in  England  of  250  acres 
of  land  in  Pennsylvania,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  also  held  land  in  Plymouth  township. 
His  children  were  John,  Mary  and  Edmund. 

A  tombstone,  elaborately  carved,  of  which  an 
engraving  is  in  Dr.  Smith’s  History  of  Delaware 
County,  was  erected  to  his  memory  in  the  Friends 


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burying  ground  at  Darby.  When  grave  stones 
were  prohibited  by  Friends,  this  was  probably 
buried,  and  was  recently  found  in  digging  a  grave 
in  the  same  burial  ground.  It  bears  the  following 
inscription : 

“For  the  memory  of  Edmund  Cartledge,  who 
died  the  26th  day  of  the  2d  month,  1703,  aged 
54  years. 

The  name  of  Jacob  Trego  is  signed  to  a  mar¬ 
riage  certificate  as  a  witness,  2d  mo.,  29th,  1714, 
as  appears  by  the  records  of  Darby  Monthly 
Meeting.  The  records  of  Chester  Monthly 
Meeting  show  that  Jacob  Trego  and  wife 
brought  a  certificate  from  Merion,  Haverford 
Monthly  Meeting,  to  Chester  Monthly  Meeting, 
dated  8th  of  6th  mo.,  1717. 

Let  us  now  see  how  there  came  to  be  Tregos  in 
Bucks  County.  On  examination  of  the  minutes  of 
Friends  Monthly  Meeting  at  Falls,  in  the  County 
of  Bucks,  we  find  at  a  Meeting  held  7th  mo.,  1st, 
1722,  a  certificate  was  requested  by  John  Lay- 
cock  to  proceed  in  marriage  with  Mary  Trego, 
widow  of  Jacob  Trego,  belonging  to  Darby 
Monthly  Meeting  in  Chester,  now  Delaware 
County ;  and  accordingly  a  certificate  was  granted 
at  the  next  meeting.  The  records  of  Darby 


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Monthly  Meeting  show  that  9th  mo.,  7th,  1722, 
John  Laycock  of  Wrightstown,  Bucks  County, 
and  Mary  Trego  of  Darby,  were  left  at  liberty 
to  consummate  their  marriage,  and  at  the  follow¬ 
ing  Monthly  Meeting,  10th  mo.,  5th,  1722,  the 
marriage  was  reported  as  accomplished. 

It  is  there  shown  that  Mary,  the  widow  of 
Jacob  Trego,  who  died  in  1720,  was  married  in 
1722  to  John  Laycock  of  Wrightstown,  Bucks 
County ;  and  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  she,  with 
her  two  children,  John  and  Rachel,  accompanied 
her  second  husband  to  his  residence  in  Bucks 
County.  This  was  a  farm  about  half  a  mile 
northeastward  from  the  Wrightstown  Meeting 
House,  afterwards  known  as  the  John  White 
farm,  adjoining  land  of  Dr.  Isaac  Chapman,  and 
now  belonging  to  the  Chapman  family. 

Charles  B.  Trego  says:  I  can  myself  remember 
passing  an  old  house  which  stood  on  this  farm, 
near  the  path  which  in  my  youthful  days  led  us 
towards  the  Meeting  House;  but  I  believe  that 
no  remains  of  the  house  that  sheltered  my  great¬ 
grandfather  in  his  boyhood  are  now  left  in  the 
place  where  it  stood. 

John  Laycock,  as  appears  by  his  certificate 
from  a  Meeting  in  Lancashire,  England,  came  to 


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this  country  in  1717,  and  his  name  appears  fre¬ 
quently  on  the  books  of  YVrightstown  Meeting 
up  to  the  year  1749. 

In  an  account  of  the  settlement  of  Wrights- 
town  written  by  the  late*  Dr.  Isaac  Chapman,  he 
says:  John  Laycock  lived  in  the  east  of  the  town¬ 
ship,  and  purchased  about  100  acres  of  land, 
built  thereon,  was  a  Minister  among  the 
Friends  for  many  years,  and  of  some  account. 

He  appears  to  have  been  a  man  of  great  sim¬ 
plicity  and  use  in  his  day.  On  this  farm  was 
killed  the  last  bear  that  was  killed  in  the  town¬ 
ship,  in  the  year  1768  or  thereabouts,  having 
in  the  autumn  come  down  from  the  mountains. 
At  this  place  in  Wrightstown,  with  her  second 
husband,  lived  the  mother  of  John  and  Rachel 
Trego,  her  children  by  a  former  husband,  Jacob 
Trego. 

By  the  records  of  Wrightstown  Monthly 
Meeting,  it  would  seem  that  John  Laycock  had 
a  daughter  Mary,  as  it  is  recorded  that  Daniel 
White  of  Buckingham  married  Mary  Laycock, 
Jr.,  of  Wrightstown,  9th  mo.,  12th,  1751- 
Witness,  Mary  Laycock,  Sarah  White,  John  and 
Hannah  Trego,  and  others.  This  Mary  Laycock 
who  signed  as  a  witness,  must  have  been  the  wife 


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of  John  Laycock,  the  widow  of  Jacob  Trego, 
and  mother  or  stepmother  of  Mary  Laycock,  Jr. 

John  Trego  was  her  son,  then  married  to 
Hannah  Lester,  of  the  family  of  Lester  in  Rich¬ 
land,  near  Quakertown,  Bucks  County.  Daniel 
White  succeded  to  the  farm  at  Wrightstown,  and 
lived  there. 

Rachel  married  Joseph  Johnson,  who  lived  at 
what  was  anciently  called  the  Verree  place,  on 
the  road  from  Wrightstown  to  Pennsville, 
about  a  quarter  of  a  mile  southwest  from  the 
Meeting  House,  since  owned  by  Joseph  Reeder 
and  by  Ira  Johnson. 

John  Laycock  also  owned  150  acres  of  land 
in  the  northwestern  corner  of  Upper  Makefield 
township,  which  became  the  property  of  his  step¬ 
son,  John  Trego.  From  ancient  deeds  of  con¬ 
veyance,  the  history  of  this  tract  appears  to  be 
as  follows  :  It  was  part  of  a  tract  of  792  acres 
conveyed  by  John  Clark  of  London,  to  John 
Estaugh  of  Newtown,  Gloucester  County,  New 
Jersey,  April  16th,  1716.  John  Estaugh  and 
wife,  October  2d,  1728,  conveyed  this  792  acres 
to  Richard  Sunley,  tailor,  of  Wrightstown. 
This  tract  included  the  land  afterwards  owned 
by  the  Tregos,  and  also  the  Doan  and  Wiggins 


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farms  in  the  same  neighborhood.  October  nth, 
1728,  Richard  Sunley  conveyed  140  acres  of  the 
792  to  John  Parsons,  who,  March  2d,  1729,  con¬ 
veyed  them  to  John  Lay  cock;  December9th,  1736, 
John  Laycock  gave  to  John  Trego,  his  stepson, 
a  title  for  the  above  mentioned  140  acres  and 
ten  acres  additional,  which  had  been  conveyed 
to  John  Laycock  by  Richard  Sunley,  December 
4th,  1733.  On  this  tract  of  land,  John  Laycock 
and  his  stepson  John  Trego,  commenced  a 
clearing,  going  by  a  path  through  the  woods 
from  their  dwelling  in  Wrightstown. 

A  log  cabin  was  probably  the  first  building 
erected  there ;  but  after  the  land  became  the 
property  of  John  Trego,  he  built  a  stone  house, 
considered  a  fine  one  at  that  time,  which  is  yet 
standing,  adjoining  the  house  erected  by  William 
Trego,  his  grandson,  about  the  year  1818.  The 
records  of  Chester  Monthly  Meeting  show  that 
John  Trego  was  born  5th  mo.,  6th,  1715. 

The  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends  at  Richland 
was  established  in  1742,  and  there  is  no  record 
there  of  the  marriage  of  John  Trego  and  Hannah 
Lester.  Previous  to  that  time  the  Richland 
Friends  were  members  of  Gwynedd  Monthly 
Meeting,  and  the  marriage  may  have  taken  place 
there,  if  it  occurred  before  1742. 


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Peter  Lester  (the  name  was  then  written  Lei¬ 
cester)  settled  in  Richland  about  1738,  the  deed 
which  he  received  for  his  land  being  made  to 
“Peter  Leicester,  gentleman,  of  the  city  of  Phil¬ 
adelphia,”  for  600  acres.  His  granddaughter, 
Hannah  Lester,  born  in  1767,  was  the  natural 
grandmother  of  the  present  John  J.  Moore,  of 
Quakertown  (see  records  of  Gwynedd  Monthly 
Meeting  now  in  the  hands  of  George  Spencer,  of 
Horsham,  Montgomery  Co.,  Pa.).  John  Trego, 
who  married  Hannah  Lester,  of  the  family  of 
Lesters  in  Richland,  near  Quakertown,  Bucks 
County,  had  two  sons,  William  and  Jacob,  and 
five  daughters,  Sarah,  Joice,  Rachel,  Mary  and 
Hannah;  William  was  born  March  16th,  1744. 
September  19th,  1768,  he  married  Rachel  Hibbs, 
of  Byberry  township,  Philadelphia  County,  a 
near  relative  of  the  Cooper  family,  and  a  cousin, 
as  I  have  understood,  to  the  father  of  James 
Fenimore  Cooper,  the  distinguished  author. 

The  homestead  farm  of  John  Trego,  in  Upper 
Makefield,  was  divided  between  his  sons  William 
and  Jacob.  William  erected  buildings  on  the 
eastern  part  of  the  tract,  and  Jacob  inherited  the 
other  portion,  with  the  buildings  which  had 
been  occupied  by  his  father.  Jacob  never 


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married,  and  at  his  death  his  portion  of  the  land 
became  the  property  of  William  Trego  and  his 
sons,  being  so  bequeathed  by  the  will  of  John 
Trego. 

Being  sold  in  1812  for  the  purpose  of  settling 
up  the  estate,  it  was  purchased  by  William,  the 
son  of  William  Trego,  who  resided  on  it  until 
the  time  of  his  decease  in  1850.  It  then  became 
the  property  of  his  son  Horace  Trego,  who  very 
soon,  needlessly  and  greatly  to  the  regret  of 
some  members  of  the  Trego  family,  sold  it  out 
of  the  name  to  which  it  had  belonged  for  more 
than  a  hundred  years.  The  other  portion  of 
John  Trego’s  land — that  which  fell  to  his  son 
William  —  became  afterwards  the  property  of 
John  Trego,  a  son  of  William,  and  now  belongs 
to  Morris  W.  Trego,  the  son  of  the  last  named 
John  Trego.  On  this  farm  is  the  ancient  family 
burying  ground,  containing  the  graves  of  a  num¬ 
ber  of  the  early  members  of  the  Trego  family. 

John  Trego  had  very  black  hair,  while  his 
sons  Jacob  and  William  had  red  hair. 

Sarah,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah  Trego, 
was  born  in  Bucks  County,  married  Joseph 
Wiggins  in  September,  1768,  and  removed  in 
1771  to  the  vicinity  of  Deer  Creek,  Harford 


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County,  Md.,  with  their  two  children,  Tracey 
and  Bezalect. 

Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah  Trego, 
was  born  in  Bucks  County,  married  Meshach 
Michiner,  of  Plumstead  ;  their  children  were, 
Isaiah,  Meshach,  Elisha,  Thomas,  Nathan,  Mar- 
maduke,  Rachel  and  Hannah  Michiner. 

Joice,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah,  died 
unmarried. 

Rachel,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah,  mar¬ 
ried  a  Mr.  Skelton,  descendants  unknown. 

Hannah,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah,  mar¬ 
ried  a  Mr.  Stockdale,  descendants  unknown. 

From  the  preceding  history  it  is  shown  that 
William  Trego  was  the  only  male  descendant  of 
the  Bucks  County  branch  who  left  issue ;  con¬ 
sequently  all  the  Tregos  of  or  from  that  locality 
trace  their  lineage  to  him.  Of  his  once  numerous 
progeny  few  comparatively  remain  in  the  locality 
of  their  birth-place.  Emigration  and  death  have 
drawn  largely  upon  them,  and  the  place  that 
knew  them  once  now  knows  them  no  more. 

Jacob  Trego  having  died  unmarried,  the 
Bucks  County  branch  of  the  family,  in  the  male 
line,  consists  entirely  of  the  descendants  of  his 
brother  William,  who  died  in  1827. 


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Children  of  William  and  Rebecca  Trego. 

Taken  from  family  record. 

Thomas,  born  15th,  8th  mo.,  1769;  died  7th, 
8th  mo.,  1837  ;  aged  68  years. 

Mahlon,  born  25th,  nth  mo.,  1770;  died  22d, 
3d  mo.,  1849;  aged  78  yrs.,  3  mos.,  28  days. 

Joseph,  born  10th,  nth  mo.,  1772. 

William,  born  29th,  9th  mo.,  1774;  died  14th, 
7th  mo.,  1850;  aged  75  yrs.,  9  mos.,  16  days. 

John,  born  20th,  12th  mo.,  1776;  died  16th, 
10th  mo.,  1832  ;  aged  55  yrs.,  10  mos.,  26  days. 

Mary,  born  1st,  10th  mo.,  1778;  died  6th,  10th 
mo.,  1784;  aged  8  yrs.,  5  days. 

Jacob,  born  28th,  10th  mo.,  1780;  died  3d,  10th 
mo.,  1870;  aged  89  yrs.,  n  mos.,  8  days. 

Jesse,  born  24th,  8th  mo.,  1782  ;  died  9th,  4th 
mo.,  1783  ;  aged  7  mos.,  15  days. 

Hannah,  born  23d,  10th  mo.,  1784;  date 
of  death  unknown. 

Rebecca,  born  21st,  8th  mo.,  1786;  died  7th, 
8th  mo.,  1875  ;  88  yrs.,  1 1  mos.,  16  days. 

2d  Mary  Trego,  born  3d,  10th  mo.,  1788  ;  died 
1st,  8th  mo.,  1868  ;  aged  7 9  yrs.,  9  mos.,  28  days. 

Of  these  children,  Thomas  the  eldest  married 
Sarah  Duffel,  of  Philadelphia ;  their  children 
were  Samuel,  James,  William,  David,  Albert, 
Harriet,  Francenia,  Sarah  and  Hannah. 


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After  residing  some  time  in  Bucks  County, 
Thomas  removed  to  Harford  County,  Maryland, 
in  1812,  where  he  died  in  1837. 

William,  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  Duffel 
Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  1796, 
and  died  in  Baltimore  in  1872;  he  married  Miss 
Emma  Patterson  of  Philadelphia  ;  they  had  three 
children,  John,  Emma  and  William  ;  John  was 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Chancellorsville,  1864; 
Emma  married  a  Mr.  Rockhill,  and  for  some 
years  has  lived  in  Dresden,  Germany.  William 
died  young. 

Albert,  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  Duffel 
Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  in  1806, 
died  in  Baltimore  in  1870;  his  widow  is  still 
living;  they  had  five  children,  John,  William, 
Jason,  James  and  Estelle. 

John,  son  of  Albert,  was  born  near  Fallston, 
Harford  County,  Md.,  in  1834,  married  Adeline 
Clabaugh  of  Baltimore,  they  have  three  children, 
Emma,  Basil  and  Nellie.  Emma  married  John 
H.  Emory  of  Baltimore. 

John  Trego  owns  and  manages  the  Berkeley 
Springs,  W.  Va. 

William,  son  of  Albert,  was  born  in  1838:  he 
resides  in  Baltimore,  and  is  manager  of  the 


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Express  Department  of  B.  and  0.  R.  R.  He  has 
one  child  that  I  know  of,  a  son  Albert,  he  was 
married  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  November  7th, 
1883,  to  Miss  Kate  B.  Carroll,  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Addison.  Albert  Trego  is  confidential  clerk  in 
the  office  of  the  general  passenger  agent  B.  and 
O.  R.  R. 

James  D.,  son  of  Albert,  was  born  in  1843, 
never  married.  For  several  years  has  been 
clerk  in  the  Freight  Department  P.  W.  &  B.  R.  R., 
President  street  Station,  Baltimore. 

Jason,  son  of  Albert,  was  born  in  1844,  died 
1844. 

Estelle,  daughter  of  Albert,  was  born  1848; 
married  Henry  W.  Roane,  of  the  firm  of  Shipley, 
Roane  &  Co.,  and  resides  at  585  Lexington 
street,  Baltimore — has  children.  I  regret  that 
no  more  biographical  matter  can  be  given  of  the 
descendants  of  Thomas  Trego,  as  they  have 
failed  to  give  me  any  information. 

Taken  from  family  records. 

Mahlon  Trego,  son  of  William  and  Rebecca 
(Hibbs)  Trego,  born  November  25th,  1770;  died 
March  22d,  1849.  [Married  Rachel,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Elizabeth  Briggs,  12th  mo.,  nth, 
1793,  she  was  born  September  24th,  1785,  and 


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died  January  14th,  1840,  in  Warwick  township, 
Bucks  County.] 

Children  of  Mahlon  and  Rachel  Trego. 

Charles  B.  born  nth  mo.,  25th,  1794;  died 
1  ith  mo.,  10th,  1874. 

Albert,  born  4th  mo.,  21st,  1796;  died  5th  mo., 
1  Oth,  1797. 

Phineas,  born  1st  mo.,  12th,  1798;  died  5th 
mo.,  2 1st,  1875. 

Elizabeth,  born  nth  mo.,  26th,  1799;  died  6th 
mo.,  1  ith,  1881. 

Louis,  born  nth  mo.,  1st,  1801;  died  - 

Robert  S.,  born  9th  mo.,  24th,  1803;  still 
living. 

Mary,  born  9th  mo.,  14th,  1805  ;  still  living. 

James,  born  8th  mo.,  1st,  1807;  still  living. 

Jos.  B.,  born  5th  mo.,  1 8th,  1809;  still  living. 

Cyrus,  born  9th  mo.,  15th,  1810;  died  nth 
mo.,  nth,  1866. 

Edward,  born  nth  mo.,  3d,  1812;  still  living. 

Mahlon,  born  9th  mo.,  8th,  1815;  died  7th  mo., 
1839- 

Morris,  born  1st  mo.,  1 8th,  1819;  died  10th 
mo.,  14th,  1843. 

In  1802  Mahlon  Trego  purchased  a  farm  in 
Upper  Makefield  township,  on  which  he  resided 


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until  his  decease  in  1849.  This  farm  he  sold  to 
his  son  Charles  B.  in  1841,  but  still  continued 
to  make  it  his  home.  The  most  of  his  children 
remained  in  Bucks  County  ;  Charles  B.  removed 
to  Philadelphia  in  1822;  Joseph  B.  purchased 
land  in  Mercer  County,  Illinois,  on  which  he 
settled  in  1839;  James  removed  to  the  same 
neighborhood  in  Illinois  in  1858,  with  his  sister 
Mary,  where  they  have  since  resided. 

Joseph,  born  10th,  nth  mo.,  1772,  the  third 
son  of  William  and  Rebecca  Trego  ;  went  when 
a  young  man  to  the  western  part  of  Pennsylva¬ 
nia,  and  settled  for  a  time  in  the  neighborhood 
of  Brownsville,  Fayette  County.  He  married 
there,  and  afterwards  removed  to  Ohio. 

William,  born  29th,  9th  mo.,  1774,  brother  of 
Joseph,  and  fourth  son  of  William  and  Rebecca 
Trego,  married  Rachel  Taylor,  and  lived  for 
several  years  in  Pineville,  Bucks  County.  He 
afterwards  purchased  that  portion  of  his  grand¬ 
father’s  land  which  had  belonged  to  his  uncle 
Jacob,  son  of  John  Trego,  and  lived  on  it  until 
his  decease  in  1850. 

6th  Gen. — Charles  B.,  son  of  Mahlon  and 
Rachel  Trego,  born  November  25th,  1794,  died 
November  10th,  1874.  Married  1817  to  Martha 


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Smith;  she  was  born  1794,  and  died  August  7th, 
1813.  He  was  a  teacher  by  profession,  and  re¬ 
moved  to  Philadelphia  in  1822,  where  during 
various  periods  of  his  life  he  held  many  positions 
of  honor  and  trust,  under  both  State  and  City 
Government.  He  was  also  a  member  of  several 
literary,  scientific,  and  historical  societies.  When 
I  first  entered  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 
1862,  I  met  him  there  as  a  professor  in  the 
Literary  Department.  The  first  part  of  this 
work  is  taken  from  his  MS.  'Their  only  child, 
Frederick  Augustus,  was  born  in  1818,  in  Bucks 
County,  and  removed  with  his  parents  when 
young  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  died  in  1881. 
He  married  Sallie  Woodruff  of  Trenton,  in  1842; 
she  was  born  in  1823,  and  now  resides  with  her 
son,  Charles  F.  Trego,  in  West  Philadelphia. 

7th  Gen. — Children  of  P'rederick  A.  and  Sijllie 
Woodruff  Trego. 

8th  Gen. — Mary  Francis,  born  1 843,  and  married 
to  P.  S.  Freeland  in  1867.  Laura  Helena,  born 
1848;  died  1853.  Charles  Frederick,  born  1 85  1  ; 
married  to  Alice  Foxall  in  1880.  William  Willett, 
born  1855  ;  married  Mary  Schneider,  of  Wash 
ington,  D.  C.,  1882.  Edward  August,  born  1865. 

William,  born  1774,  died  1850,  son  of  William 
and  Rebecca  Trego  ;  married  Rachel  Taylor. 


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Children  of  William  and  Rachel  (Taylor)  Trego. 

Taken  from  family  record. 

Charles  T.,  born  4th  mo.,  20th,  1800. 

George,  born  8th  mo.,  8th,  1801  ;  died  6th 
mo.,  1 2th,  1828. 

Anne  T.,  born  5th  mo.,  nth,  1803. 

Watson  P.,  born  1st  mo.,  22d,  1805. 

William  C.,  born  4th  mo.,  6th,  1807;  died  10th 
mo.,  29th,  1831. 

Elizabeth,  born  1  ith  mo.,  3d,  1810. 

Alfred,  born  3d  mo.,  15th,  1812. 

Smith,  born  12th  mo.,  4th,  1815. 

Jonathan  K.,  born  3d  mo.,  nth,  1817. 

Horace,  born  4th  mo.,  5th,  1819. 

Some  of  these  are  deceased  and  some  reside 
in  Illinois. 

John,  born  20th,  12th  mo.,  1776,  son  of  Wil¬ 
liam  and  Rebecca  Trego,  married  Mary  Morris, 
and  lived  for  some  time  on  a  farm  belonging  to 
her  father,  situated  a  little  north  of  the  meeting 
house  at  W rightstown.  He  afterwards  purchased 
the  farm  belonging  to  his  father,  the  south  east¬ 
ern  part  of  the  old  homestead  of  his  grandfather, 
John  Trego,  and  resided  on  it  at  the  time  of  his 
decease,  16th,  10th  mo.,  1832.  This  farm  now 
belongs  to  his  son,  Morris  W.  Trego,  and  has 
on  it  the  old  family  burial  ground. 


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Children  of  John  and  Mary  (Morris)  Trego. 

Taken  from  family  record. 

Rebecca,  born  7th  mo.,  nth,  1802;  died  4th 
mo.,  20th,  1823. 

John  K.,  born  7th  mo.,  24th,  1804. 

Elizabeth,  born  7th  mo.,  14th,  1806;  died  10th 
mo.,  19th,  1831. 

Morris  W.,  born  6th  mo.,  7th,  1808. 

Hannah,  born  6th  mo.,  30th,  1810;  died  10th 
mo.,  12th,  1815. 

Lydia,  born  nth  mo.,  15th,  1812. 

Seth  D.,  born  9th  mo.,  15th,  1815. 

Seth  D.  and  Lydia  reside  in  Illinois. 

Jacob,  born  28th,  10th  mo.,  1780,  the  sixth  son 
of  William  and  Rebecca  Trego,  married  Letitia 
Smith,  and  lived  for  some  time  at  the  old  home¬ 
stead,  then  belonging  to  his  uncle  Jacob  Trego. 
After  the  death  of  the  latter, — and  the  sale  of  the 
farm  to  William  Trego,  his  brother— Jacob 
bought  land  near  Pineville,  part  of  which  had 
belonged  to  his  father,  and  resided  there  until 
1846,  when  he  sold  his  property  and  removed  to 
Mercer  County,  Illinois,  where  several  of  his 
sons  had  previously  settled.  He  died  there 
3d,  10th  mo.,  1870,  aged  89  years  n  months  8 
days. 


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Children  of  Jacob  and  Letitia  (Smith;  Trego. 

Taken  from  family  record. 

Smith,  born  8th  mo.,  I  ith,  1804;  died  8th  mo., 
24th,  1804. 

Howard,  born  Sth  mo.,  16th,  1805;  killed  6th 
mo.,  5th,  1844. 

Allen,  born  Sth  mo.,  26th,  1807. 

Curtis,  born  9th  mo.,  1  Sth,  1809. 

Henry,  born  12th  mo.,  29th,  1811. 

Elinor,  born  2d  mo.,  28th,  1814;  died  6th  mo., 
Sth,  1826. 

Thomas,  born  5th  mo.,  13th,  1816. 

Rebecca,  born  7th  mo.,  22d,  1818. 

Elias  H.,  born  3d  mo.,  15th,  1821  ;  died  10th 
mo.,  27th,  1826. 

Joseph,  born  5th  mo.,  9th,  1823. 

Yardley,  born  10th  mo.,  17th,  1826. 

All  of  these,  except  Smith,  Elias  and  Elinor, 
who  died  when  children,  removed  to  Illinois. 

Thomas  removed  from  Illinois,  and  settled  in 
Bucks  County,  having  purchased  a  farm  about  a 
mile  west  of  Doylestown. 

Hannah,  born  23d,  10th  mo.,  1784,  daughter 
of  William  and  Rebecca  Trego,  married  Isaac 
Beans,  of  Buckingham,  Bucks  County.  They 
removed  to  Harford  County,  Maryland,  but 


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again  returned  to  Bucks  County,  and  after  some 
years  removed  to  Ohio.  They  had  five  children, 
two  sons  and  three  daughters.  I  can  find  no 
trace  of  them. 

Rebecca,  born  21st,  8th  mo.,  1786;  died  7th, 
8th  mo.,  1875,  aged  88  yrs.  11  mos.  16  days, 
daughter  of  William  and  Rebecca  Trego,  mar¬ 
ried  John  Beans,  a  brother  of  Isaac  Beans  above 
mentioned;  and  after  his  death,  Thomas  Briggs 
of  Newtown  township.  Her  second  husband 
died  some  years  ago,  and  after  his  death  she 
resided  in  Pineville  during  the  remainder  of 
her  life. 

Mary,  second  by  same  name,  born  3d,  10th 
mo.,  1788;  died  1st,  8th  mo.,  1868,  aged  79  yrs.  9 
mos.  28  days,  third  daughter  of  William  and 
Rebecca  Trego,  married  her  cousin,  Mahlon  H. 
West,  of  Harford  County,  Maryland,  and  had  a 
large  family  of  children.  Her  husband  was 
drowned  during  a  visit  to  Philadelphia,  in  1836, 
by  accidentally  falling,  in  the  evening,  from  the 
drawbridge  which  extended  across  a  canal  at  the 
west  end  of  the  Schuylkill  bridge,  at  Market 
street. 

Mahlon  H.  West  was  the  son  of  Thomas 
West,  who  married  Elizabeth  Hibbs ;  she  was  a 
sister  of  Rebecca,  wife  of  William  Trego. 


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Having  given  a  general  biographical  and 
genealogical  history  of  the  family  from  the  time 
of  Peter,  it  now  becomes  necessary  to  go  back 
and  give  the  history  of  each  branch  separately  in 
order  that  it  may  be  distinctly  understood. 

ist  Generation. — Peter,  the  first,  was  born  in 
France  in  1655,  died  in  Chester  County,  now 
Delaware  County,  in  1730.  His  wife’s  name  was 
Judith,  whom  he  must  have  married  in  Chester 
County,  as  he  landed  in  this  country  about  the 
year  1682,  and  his  first  child  was  not  born  until 
August  7th,  1687.  From  old  manuscripts  we 
have  positive  proof  that  he  was  not  married 
when  he  first  came  to  this  country,  but  whether 
any  of  his  brothers  or  even  his  father  came  with 
him,  is  a  question  which  cannot  be  settled  at  this 
late  date,  as  there  appears  to  be  no  mention  made 
of  any  but  Peter. 

2d  Gen. — Jacob  Trego,  eldest  child  of  Peter 
and  Judith  Trego,  was  born  in  Chester,  now 
Delaware,  County,  Pa.,  August  7th,  1687,  and 
married  Mary  Cartledge,  Dec.  1st,  1709.  He 
was  the  progenitor  of  the  Bucks  County  branch 
of  the  Trego  family,  and  died  at  Middletown, 
April  10th,  1724.  Their  children  were  John, 
Rachel,  Mary  and  Hannah,  who  died  in  infancy. 


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2d  Gen. — James,  born  in  Chester  County,  4th 
mo.,  26th,  1690,  second  child  of  Peter  and  Judith 
Trego.  It  is  to  be  presumed  from  all  the  records 
we  can  find  that  he  died  leaving  no  children. 
His  wife’s  name  was  Elizabeth  ;  it  will  be  seen 
elsewhere  that  he  died  young,  but  what  year  I  am 
unable  to  state. 

2d  Gen. — William,  born  in  Chester  County, 
6th  mo.,  3d,  1693,  third  child  of  Peter  and  Judith 
Trego;  married  Margaret  Moore,  of  Goshen, 
June  26th,  1717;  he  had  red  hair.  They  left 
nine  children;  the  descendants  of  William  Trego 
are  known  as  the  Chester  County  branch  of  the 
Trego  family,  and  those  of  Jacob  as  the  Bucks 
County  branch. 

2d  Gen. — John,  born  in  Chester  County,  12th 
mo.,  15th,  1696,  fourth  child  of  Peter  and  Judith 
Trego.  Can  give  no  other  records  of  him. 

2d  Gen. — Ann,  born  in  Chester  County,  8th 
mo.,  26th,  1702,  daughter  of  Peter  and  Judith 
Trego;  married  Dr.  James  Rushton  of  Middle- 
town,  I  ith  of  6th  mo.,  1725. 

2d  Gen.— Peter,  Jr.,  son  of  Peter  and  Judith, 
have  no  records  of  his  birth;  as  John  was  born 
in  1696  and  Ann  1702,  it  is  to  be  presumed  that 
he  came  next  after  John.  Peter,  Jr.,  married 
Ann  Whitaker,  nth  mo.,  5th,  1726. 


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3d  Gen. — John,  born  in  Chester  County,  5th 
mo.,  6th,  1715,  eldest  child  of  Jacob  and  Mary 
Trego ;  married  Hannah  Lester  of  Richland, 
Bucks  County,  date  unknown.  They  left  seven 
children,  William,  Jacob,  Sarah,  Mary,  Joice, 
Rachel  and  Hannah. 

3d  Gen. — Rachel,  born  in  Chester  County,  7th 
mo.,  27th,  1719,  second  child  of  Jacob  and  Mary 
Trego;  married  Joseph  Johnson,  who  lived  on 
the  Verree  place,  on  the  road  from  Wrightstown 
to  Pennsville,  Bucks  County.  They  left  five 
children,  David,  born  1747;  Mary,  born  1749; 
John,  born  1752;  Samuel,  born  1755;  and 
Joseph,  born  1759. 

3d  Gen. — Hannah  (no  record  of  birth)  died 
4th  mo.,  10th,  1720,  third  and  last  child  of  Jacob 
and  Mary  Trego.  Hannah  must  have  died  the 
same  year  she  was  born. 

3d  Gen.  —  Mary  (no  record  of  birth  or  death), 
daughter  of  John  Laycock  and  Mary,  widow  of 
Jacob  Trego,  married  Daniel  White  of  Bucking¬ 
ham,  9th  mo  ,  12th,  1751  (no  records  of  family). 

2d  Gen. — Mary  Cartledge  Trego,  born  August 
25th,  1685,  widow  of  Jacob  Trego;  it  will  be 
noticed  that  she  was  two  years  older  than  her 
husband.  After  the  death  of  her  first  husband, 


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Jacob  Trego,  she  married  John  Laycock,  Octo¬ 
ber  5th,  1722. 

4th  Gen. — William,  born  March  16th,  1744,  in 
Bucks  County,  son  of  John  and  Hannah  Lester 
Trego;  married  Rebecca  Hibbs  of  Byberry,  Ben- 
salem  township,  Sept.  19th,  1768;  he  died  in 
Bucks  County,  in  1827.  They  had  eleven  chil¬ 
dren,  Thomas,  Mahlon,  Joseph,  William,  John, 
Mary,  Jacob,  Jesse,  Hannah,  Rebecca,  and  a 
second  Mary. 

4th  Gen.— Jacob,  born  in  Bucks  County  in 
1746,  son  of  John  and  Hannah  Lester  Trego; 
never  married,  died  in  Bucks  County  in  1810; 
at  his  death  was  buried  in  the  old  family  burying 
ground,  as  directed  during  his  lifetime,  beside 
several  of  the  same  name  buried  at  a  very  early 
date. 

4th  Gen. — Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Han¬ 
nah  Lester  Trego  ;  married  a  Mr.  Michener. 

4th  Gen. —  Hannah,  daughter  of  John  and 
Hannah  Lester  Trego;  married  a  Mr.  Stockdale 
(no  records). 

4th  Gen. —  Rachel,  daughter  of  John  and 
Hannah  Lester  Trego;  married  a  Mr.  Skelton 
(no  records). 

4th  Gen. — Joice,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah 
Lester  Trego  (no  records). 


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4th  Gen. — Sarah,  daughter  and  last  child  of 
John  and  Hannah  Lester  Trego;  married  a  Mr. 
Wiggins  (no  records). 

5th  Gen. — Thomas,  eldest  child  of  William 
and  Rebecca  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County, 
August  15th,  1769;  married  Sarah  Duffel  of 
Philadelphia ;  died  near  Fallston,  Harford 
County,  Maryland,  in  1837.  [See  page  32.] 

5th  Gen. — Mahlon,  second  child  of  William 
and  Rebecca  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County, 
November  25th,  1770;  died  March  22d,  1849. 
Married  Rachel  Briggs  of  Warwick  township, 
Bucks  County,  December  nth,  1793;  she  was 
born  September  24th,  1775  ;  died  January  14th, 
1840.  (6th  Gen.)  Their  children  were,  Charles 
B.,  Albert,  Phineas,  Elizabeth,  Louis,  Robert  S., 
Mary,  James,  Joseph  B.,  Cyrus,  Edward,  Mahlon, 
and  Morris  H.  All  born  in  West  Makefield, 
Bucks  County,  Pennsylvania. 

5th  Gen. — Joseph,  third  child  of  William  and 
Rebecca  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County, 
November  10th,  1772.  Went  to  Fayette  County, 
Pennsylvania,  when  a  young  man,  married  and 
settled  there  afterwards  removed  to  Ohio,  where 
some  of  his  descendants  are  yet  probably  living  ; 
have  no  record  of  his  family. 


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5th  Gen. — William,  fourth  child  of  William 
and  Rebecca  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County, 
September  29th,  1774,  and  died  there  July  14th, 
1850.  He  married  Rachel  Taylor.  Their 
children  were,  Charles  S.,  George,  Anna  T., 
Watson  P.,  William  C.,  Elizabeth,  Alfred,  Smith, 
Jonathan  K.,  and  Horace. 

5th  Gen. — John,  fifth  child  of  William  and  Re¬ 
becca  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County,  De¬ 
cember  20th,  1776.  He  married  Mary  Morris; 
their  children  were,  Rebecca,  John  K.,  Elizabeth, 
Morris  W.,  Hannah,  Eydia  and  Seth  D. 

5th  Gen. — Mary,  sixth  child  of  William  and 
Rebecca  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County, 
October  1st,  1778;  died  October  6th,  1784. 

5th  Gen. — Jacob,  seventh  child  of  William  and 
Rebecca  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County, 
October  28th,  1780;  died  October  3d,  1870.  He 
married  Letitia  Smith.  Their  children  were, 
Smith,  Howard,  Allen,  Curtis,  Henry,  Elinor, 
Thomas,  Elias  H.,  Rebecca,  Joseph  and  Yardley. 

5th  Gen.— Jesse,  eighth  child  of  William  and 
Rebecca  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County, 
August  29th,  1782;  died  April  9th,  1783. 

5th  Gen. — Hannah,  ninth  child  of  William  and 
Rebecca  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County, 


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October  23d,  1784;  married  Isaac  Beans,  of 
Buckingham,  Bucks  County.  Their  children 
were,  William,  Charles,  Wilson,  Sarah  and  Mary 
Beans. 

5th  Gen. — Rebecca,  tenth  child  of  William  and 
Rebecca  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County, 
August  2 1  st,  1786.  During  her  single  life  lived 
for  a  time  with  her  uncle  Thomas  Trego,  near 
Fallston,  Harford  County,  Maryland  ;  first  mar¬ 
ried  John  Beans,  brother  of  Isaac  Beans,  and 
afterwards  married  Thomas  Briggs,  of  Bucks 
County,  and  resided  there  during  the  remainder 
of  her  life;  she  died  August  7th,  1S75.  They 
left  no  children. 

5th  Gen. — Mary,  second  by  same  name,  daugh¬ 
ter  of  William  and  Rebecca  Trego,  was  born  in 
Bucks  County,  October  3d,  1788.  Married 
Mahlon  West,  of  Harford  County,  Maryland  ; 
he  was  drowned  by  accidentally  falling  from 
a  drawbridge  in  1836.  [See  page  41.]  Their 
children  were,  William  T.,  who  is  married  and 
resides  in  Cecil  County,  Maryland  ;  Jesse  H  and 
Elizabeth,  died  in  infancy;  Rebecca  T.,  Elizabeth 
H.  (second),  Granville  S.,  Amos  S.,  Edward  S. 
and  Mary  V: ;  for  many  years  resided  in  Har¬ 
ford  County.  Their  mother,  Mary,  died  at 


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Yardleysville,  Bucks  County,  Pennsylvania, 
August  1st,  1868. 

6th  Gen. — Her  daughter,  Elizabeth  West, 
married  a  Mr.  Twining,  of  Wrightstown,  Bucks 
County. 

6th  Gen. — Mary  West,  married  a  Mr.  Gilkison. 

5th  Gen. — Mahlon  Trego,  son  of  William  and 
Rebecca  (Hibbs)  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks 
County,  November  25th,  1770;  died  March  22, 
1849.  Married  Rachel,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Elizabeth  Briggs,  12th  mo.,  nth,  1793.  She  was 
born  September  24th,  1775  ;  died  January  14th, 
1840. 

6th  Gen. —  Children  of  Mahlon  and  Rachel 
Trego:  Charles  B.,  Albert,  Phineas,  Elizabeth, 
Louis,  Robert  S.,  Mary,  James,  Joseph,  Cyrus, 
Edward,  Mahlon,  Jr.,  Morris. 

Charles  B.,  son  of  Mahlon  and  Rachel  Briggs 
Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County,  1  ith  mo., 
25th,  1794;  died  1  ith  mo.,  10th,  1874.  Married 
Martha  Smith  in  1817,  she  was  born  in  1794  and 
died  August  7th,  1883. 

7th  Gen. — Their  only  child,  Frederick  Augus¬ 
tus,  born  -  1818,  in  Bucks  County;  he 

died  -  1881.  Married  Sarah  Woodruff. 

They  left  five  children,  all  born  in  Philadelphia. 


5° 


8th  Gen. — Mary  Francis,  daughter  of  Fred¬ 
erick  A.  and  Sarah  Woodruff  Trego,  was  born 
-  1843  ;  married  James  S.  Freeland  in  1867. 

Laura  Helena,  their  second  child,  was  born 
1848,  died  1853. 

Charles  Frederick,  their  third  child,  born  in 
1851,  married  Alice  C.  Troxall,  of  Allentown, 
Lehigh  County,  Pa.,  in  1880,  and  now  resides 
at  631  Union  street,  West  Philadelphia. 

William  Willett  Trego,  their  fourth  child,  born 
1855,  married  Mary  Schnider,  of  Washington, 
D.  C.,  in  1882,  where  they,  reside. 

Edward  August,  fifth  and  last  child  of  Fred¬ 
erick  A.  and  Sarah  Woodruff  Trego,  was  born 
in  1865. 

6th  Gen. — Albert,  second  child  of  Mahlon  and 
Rachel  Briggs  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County, 
4th  mo.,  2 1  st,  1796;  died  5th  mo.,  10th,  1797. 

Phineas,  third  child  of  Mahlon  and  Rachel 
Briggs  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County,  1st  mo., 
12th,  1798,  died  there  5th  mo.,  21st,  1875  ;  mar¬ 
ried  Letitia  Heston  in  1821  ;  she  died  in  1825, 
leaving  one  son. 

7th  Gen. — Oliver,  born  January  5th,  1822.  He 
married  Lucilla  Martindell,  September,  1848, 
and  removed  to  Iowa. 


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8th  Gen. — Thomas  B.,  only  child  of  Oliver 
and  Lucilla  Trego,  was  born  in  Iowa,  January, 
1849;  married  Martha  R.  David  of  that  State  in 
1873.  Their  children  were: 

9th  Gen. — Lucilla,  born  December  25th,  1873. 

Mary,  born  March  13th,  1875  >  died  July  12th, 
1876. 

Margaret  E.,  born  December  5th,  1876. 

Myrtle,  born  December  1st,  1880;  they  reside 
in  Montgomery  County,  Iowa. 

6th  Gen. — After  the  death  of  Phineas  Trego’s 
first  wife  he  married  Wilhelmina  Catell,  she  was 
born  in  1802;  by  the  second  wife  he  had  one 
child. 

7th  Gen. — Edward,  born  December  6th,  1833  ; 
married  Annie  Heston,  March  4th,  1858,  she  was 
born  March  7th,  1837.  They  reside  in  Iowa, 
and  have  no  children. 

6th  Gen. — Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Mahlon  and 
Rachel  Briggs  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County, 
Nov.  26th,  1799;  married  John  Merrick,  Nov. 
loth,  1826;  she  died  Nov.  10th,  1881.  He  was 
born  Nov.  26th,  1794,  and  died  Sept.  7th,  1866. 
Their  children  were: 

I.  Wilson,  born  October  8th,  1827  ;  died  April 
24th,  1828. 


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Geo.  T.,  born  February  19th,  1829. 

Jane  Eliza,  born  August  20th,  1831  ;  died 
December  25th,  1864. 

David,  born  February  4th,  1835  ;  died  May 
20th,  1863. 

Joseph  T.,  born  November  2d,  1839  1  died  Sep¬ 
tember  17th,  1862;  killed  in  battle  of  Antietam. 

Edward,  born  February  2d,  1845  ; - 

6th  Gen. — Lewis,  son  of  Mahlon  and  Rachel 
Briggs  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County,  November 
1st,  1801,  died  March,  i860;  married  Sarah  Wil¬ 
lard,  1825,  she  was  born  1796;  died  November 
27th,  1879.  Their  children  were  : 

7th  Gen. — Albert,  George,  Harrison,  T.  Willis, 
Caroline,  Mary  Ann,  and  a  second  Harrison. 

Albert,  son  of  Lewis  and  Rachel  Trego, 
was  born  in  Bucks  County,  October,  1825  ; 
married  Martha  Linton,  in  1854;  she  was 
born  in  1833.  He  in  early  life  was  a  teacher, 
studied  medicine,  graduated  in  Philadelphia, 
1861,  practiced  in  Bucks  County  until  1878, 
when  he  removed  to  Allen  County,  Kansas, 
where  he  yet  resides,  engaged  in  farming  and  the 
practice  of  his  profession. 

8th  Gen. — Their  children,  Annie  S.,  born  1856; 
married,  in  1879,  Mahlon  T.  Trego  of  Harvey 
County,  Kansas. 


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Mary  H.,  was  born  1857;  married  Edwin  S. 
Kirk  of  Buckingham,  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  1881, 
and  resides  in  Bucks  County. 

8th  Gen. — Susan  L.,  born  1858;  died  1858. 

Ellerslie  W.,  born  1861. 

George  L.,  born  1863;  died  1864. 

Albert,  Jr.,  born  1872. 

7th  Gen. — George,  son  of  Lewis  and  Sarah 
Trego,  was  born  September,  1827.  Married 
Elizabeth  Neeld,  November  4th,  1847;  she  was 
born  October  10th,  1829.  He  died  December 
13th,  1868,  from  wounds  received  at  battle  of 
Antietam  in  United  States  service.  Their  chil¬ 
dren  were : 

8th  Gen. — Annabell,  Caroline,  Wilbert  W., 
Lewis  and  Emma. 

Annabell,  born  August  31st,  1848;  married 
Mathias  Harvey,  1867.  They  have  two  children 
(9th  Gen.),  Wm.  H.,  born  July  29th,  1871,  and 
George  T.,  born  April  4th,  1877. 

8th  Gen. — Caroline,  daughter  of  George  and 
Elizabeth  Trego,  born  September  3d,  1850; 
married  Franklin  Buckman,  Jr.,  March  25th, 
1871.  Their  children  are  (9th  Gen.),  George  S., 
born  January  3d,  1871,  and  Honora,  born  April 
29th,  1873. 


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Wilbert  W.,  son  of  George  and  Elizabeth 
Trego,  born  May  31st,  1853;  married  Mary  Buck- 
man,  sister  of  Franklin  Buckman,  October  7th, 
1873.  Their  child  (9th  Gen.),  Martha  B.,  born 
July  24th,  1877. 

Lewis,  son  of  George  and  Elizabeth  Trego, 
was  born  March  15th,  1857;  married  Louisa 
M.  Shaffer,  December  12th,  1879.  No  children. 

Emma,  daughter  of  George  and  Elizabeth, 
born  February  8th,  1863;  married  Lewis  M. 
Appleton,  March  16th,  1878.  Their  children 
(9th  Gen.),  Annabell,  born  January  25th,  1879, 
and  Lula  May,  born  May  30th,  1883. 

7th  Gen. — Harrison,  son  of  Lewis  and  Sarah 
Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County,  January, 
1838;  married  Margaret  Baker,  May,  i860;  she 
was  born  August,  1840.  Their  children  were 
(8th  Gen.),  Caroline  N.,  born  February,  1861, 
Kate  B.,  born  December,  1863,  and  Albert  T., 
born  October,  1870.  -Harrison  Trego  served  in 
the  Union  Army  during  the  war  in  Gen.  Sher¬ 
man’s  command.  After  the  war  was  appointed 
Post  Master  at  Orion,  Henry  Co.,  Ills.,  in  1865, 
where  he  still  resides  and'  holds  the  same 
position. 

7th  Gen. — P.  Willis,  son  of  Lewis  and  Sarah 


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Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County,  September,  1831. 
Married  Isabell  Vanmeetre,  November,  1856. 
He  went  to  Ills,  in  1854,  and  still  resides  there. 
Their  children  were  (8th  Gen.),  Abner,  Sarah, 
Elmer,  Mary,  Edgar,  Jonathan,  Stephen,  and 
Leroy. 

8th  Gen. — Abner,  son  of  P.  Willis  and  Isabell 
Trego,  born  in  Ills.,  December,  1858;  married 
October,  1881. 

Sarah,  born  in  Ills.,  April,  i860;  died  March, 
1865. 

Elmer,  born  Ills.,  July,  1861. 

Mary,  twin  sister  of  Elmer,  born  in  July,  1861  ; 
died  September,  1861. 

Edgar,  born  in  Ills.,  January,  1863. 

Jonathan,  born  in  Ills.,  March,  1864. 

Stephen,  born  in  Ills.,  July,  1869. 

Leroy,  born  in  Ills.,  October,  1872. 

7th  Gen. — Caroline,  daughter  of  Lewis  and 
Sarah  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County,  July,  1833  ! 
married  Harvey  Neal,  removed  to  Ills.,  and  died 
there  in  1877.  They  left  one  child  (8th  Gen.), 
Willis  Neal. 

Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Lewis  and  Sarah 
Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County,  July,  1835;  mar¬ 
ried  Lewis  Roberts,  of  Newtown,  Bucks  County, 
and  died  in  1862.  No  children. 


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6th  Gen. — Robert  S.,  son  of  Mahlon  and 
Rachel  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County,  Sep¬ 
tember  24th,  1803;  married  Sarah  T.  Briggs,  at 
Halls  Meeting,  October  19th,  1831.  She  was  born 
August  1 8th,  1808.  They  are  still  living  at  Dol- 
lington,  Bucks  County.  I  am  greatly  indebted 
to  Robert  S.  Trego  for  much  valuable  assis¬ 
tance  in  furnishing  copies  of  manuscript,  together 
with  names,  dates  of  births,  deaths,  marriages, 
etc.  Their  children  were  (7th  Gen.),  Rebecca  B., 
Emmor  K.,  T.  Story,  Edgar  P.,  Mahlon  T.,  Wil¬ 
liam  W.,  Robert  Henry,  B.  Franklin,  and 
Eugene. 

7th  Gen. — Rebecca  B.,  daughter  of  Robert  S. 
and  Sarah  T.  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County, 
August  4th,  1832;  died  June  15th,  1835. 

Emmor  K.,  born  in  Bucks  County,  February 
24th,  1834;  married  Margaret  Murfit,  November, 
1856.  Their  children  are  (8th  Gen.),  Mary  B., 
born  January  12th,  1861,  and  Anna  M.,  born 
February  15  th,  1870. 

Thomas  Story,  son  of  Robert  S.  and  Sarah 
T.  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County,  January  24th, 
1836;  died  September  6th,  1836. 

Edgar  P.,  son  of  Robert  S.  and  Sarah  T. 
Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County,  April  1st,  1838; 


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married  Jennie  Clark,  of  Ills.,  in  1 86 1  ;  she 
was  born  in  Ills.  He  was  killed  in  battle 
September  19th,  1863.  His  wife  died  in  1873. 
They  left  no  children.  In  1858  he  went  to 
Henry  Co.,  Ills.,  and  in  1861  enlisted  in  the 
United  States  Army.  Was  with  Col.  Mulligan 
at  Lexington,  Mo.,  taken  prisoner,  exchanged, 
and  shortly  after  raised  a  company,  joined  8th 
Kansas  Regiment,  and  was  attached  to  the  Army 
of  the  Cumberland.  Was  killed  at  the  battle 
of  Chickamauga,  and  was  interred  in  National 
Cemetery  at  Chattanooga.  A  county  in  the  state 
of  Kansas  bears  his  name,  given  in  recognition 
of  the  services  of  Captain  Edgar  P.  Trego,  to 
that  state. 

Taken  from  a  Bucks  Co.  Paper  for  Nov.  1863. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Leavenworth  Bulletin, 
who  belongs  to  the  8th  Kansas  Regiment,  and 
who  took  part  in  the  great  battle  of  Chicka¬ 
mauga,  has  written  an  account  of  that  bloody 
struggle.  He  pays  a  fervent  tribute  to  the  brave 
spirits  wrho,  on  that  field,  yielded  up  their  lives 
for  their  country,  among  whom  was  Captain 
Edgar  P.  Trego,  formerly  of  Bucks  County.  The 
circumstances  of  the  death  of  Captain  Trego 
are  thus  related  by  his  comrade  in  arms.  Cap- 


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tain  Edgar  P.  Trego  was  one  of  the  most  highly 
esteemed  officers  of  the  Eighth.  He  was  a  type 
of  the  ancient  chevalier,  sans  pair  et  sans  reproche. 
The  circumstances  of  his  death  are  peculiarly 
touching,  for  he  fell  a  victim  to  his  own  manly 
and  generous-impulses.  When  the  regiment  was 
withdrawn,  on  the  evening  of  the  19th,  he  asked 
leave  to  return  and  bring  away  some  of  his 
wounded  boys.  It  was  about  dusk  when  he 
passed  over  the  battle-field  on  his  mission  of 
humanity.  Firing  had  ceased.  Rebels  and 
Federals  were  together  there,  and  both  parties 
seemed  to  regard  it,  for  the  time,  as  neutral 
ground.  But  as  poor  Trego  was  returning,  a 
ball  from  one  of  the  Confederate  sharpshooters 
struck  him,  while  he  was  stooping  over  a 
wounded  soldier,  killing  him  instantly.  Five 
minutes  after  he  was  congratulated  upon  having 
passed  safely  through  the  fight,  he  was  a  corpse. 

7th  Gen. — Mahlon  T.,  son  of  Robert  S.  and 
Sarah  T.  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County, 
April  19th,  1840;  married  M.  Matilda  Roca- 
fellow,  October  22d,  1862;  she  was  born  April 
6th,  1843,  and  died  October  19th,  1876.  Their 
children  were  Fannie  C.  and  Lizzie  H. 

8th  Gen. — Fannie  C.,  born  November  30th, 


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1864;  married  Joseph  P.  Trego,  of  Kansas, 
1882.  They  have  one  child  (gth  Gen.),  Henry 
S.,  born  May  1 8th,  1883. 

Lizzie  H.,  born  September  1st,  1869. 

After  the  death  of  Mahlon  T.  Trego’s  wife,  he 
removed  with  his  two  children  to  Harvey 
County,  Kansas,  where  he  had  previously  pur¬ 
chased  land  in  1879, and  *n  the  same  year  married 
his  first  cousin  Annie  S.  Trego,  daughter  of 
Dr.  Albert  Trego,  of  Allen  County,  Kansas. 
They  have  one  child  (9th  Gen.),  Ruthie  E.,  born 
September  8th,  1880. 

7th  Gen. — William  W.,  son  of  Robert  S.  and 
Sarah  T.  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County,  May 
1st,  1842;  married  Amanda  Mahan,  Febru¬ 
ary  14th,  1865  ;  she  was  born  October  26th,  1843. 
Their  children  are  (8th  Gen.),  Robert  T.  and 
Mary  M. 

8th  Gen. —  Robert  T.,  was  born  May  2d,  1867, 
and  Mary  M.,  June  14th,  1873.  They  both 
reside  in  Bucks  County,  their  native  place. 

7th  Gen. — Robert  Plenry,  son  of  Robert  S. 
and  Sarah  T.  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County, 
July  2 1  st,  1844;  married  Lizzie  Lum,  January 
1 1  th,  1872  ;  she  was  born  May  21st,  1845.  Their 
only  child  (8th  Gen.),  Lillian,  born  October  9th, 
1874;  died  June  1 8th,  1875. 


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Robert  Henry  Trego  served  an  appren¬ 
ticeship  to  the  Printer’s  Craft,  in  the  office  of 
the  Bucks  County  “Intelligencer,”  at  Doyles- 
town.  Graduated  in  1865,  and  remained  in  that 
office  until  1869,  when  he,  with  a  former  fellow 
craftsman,  went  to  Sidney,  Ohio,  and  purchased 
the  “  Sidney  Journal,”  which  they  yet  publish 
under  the  firm  name  of  Trego  &  Binkley. 

Benjamin  Franklin,  son  of  Robert  S.  and  Sarah 
T.  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County,  January  16th, 
1848;  married  Martha  Engle,  of  Illinois,  March 
5th,  1874;  she  died  childless,  March  22d,  1876. 
He  married  a  second  wife  Lizzie  Engle,  April  4th, 
1878  ;  she  was  born  June  22d,  1855.  They  have 
one  child  (8th  Gen.),  Alice,  born  October  21st, 
1879.  In  1868  he  removed  to  Henry  County, 
Illinois,  where  he  now  resides. 

Eugene,  son  of  Robert  S.  and  Sarah  T. 
Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County,  October  14th, 
1851;  married  Anna  Parsonage,  March  13th, 
1873;  she  was  born  September  16th,  1853. 
Their  children  are  (8th  Gen.),  Lora,  born  Sep¬ 
tember  2d,  1875,  and  Edgar  Franklin,  born 
September  19th,  1883.  In  1870  they  removed 
to  Illinois,  and  remained  there  until  1879,  when 
they  removed  to  Harvey  County,  Kansas,  where 
they  still  reside. 


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6th  Gen. — Mary,  daughter  of  Mahlon  and 
Rachel  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County,  Sep¬ 
tember  14th,  1805.  In  1850  she  removed  to 
Mercer  County,  Illinois,  where  she  still  resides 
with  her  brother,  Jos.  B.  Trego.  Never  married. 

James,  son  of  Mahlon  and  Rachel  Trego, 
born  in  Bucks  County,  August  1st,  1807;  mar¬ 
ried  Abigail  Herron,  of  Titusville,  N.  J.,  Feb¬ 
ruary  26th,  1834;  she  was  born  1806.  Their 
children  were  (7th  Gen.),  Scudder  H.  and 
Amanda. 

7th  Gen. — Scudder  H.,  born  January  1st,  1835  ; 
married  Emmaretta  Kinsey,  April  7th,  1855;  she 
was  born  July  15th,  1835.  Their  children  were 
(8th  Gen.),  Joseph  P.  and  Lizzie  B. 

8th  Gen. — Joseph  P.,  was  born  April  13th, 
1857;  married  Jennie  C.  Trego,  born  November 
30th,  1864,  daughter  of  Mahlon  Jr.,  August  2d, 
1882.  They  have  one  child,  Henry  S.,  born 
May  1 8th,  1883. 

8th  Gen. — Lizzie  B.,  can  get  no  record  of  her. 

7th  Gen. — Amanda,  daughter  of  James  and 
Abigail  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County,  1836; 
married  B.  Rush  Blackfar,  M.  D.,  of  Illinois, 
1857;  he  was  born  1827.  Graduated  in  Phila¬ 
delphia  as  a  doctor  of  medicine  in  1849.  They 


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have  two  children,  James  T.,  born  1858,  and 
Mary  T.,  born  1864. 

6th  Gen. — James  Trego,  removed  with  his 
family  to  Ills,  in  1857,  and  removed  to  Harvey 
Co.,  Kansas,  in  1879,  where  they  yet  reside. 

6th  Gen. — Joseph  B.,  son  of  Mahlon  and 
Rachel  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County,  May 
1 8th ,  1809;  married  Nancy  Huyck,  October  5th, 
1843;  she  was  born  in  Ohio,  April  nth,  1819. 
He  removed  from  Bucks  County  to  Mercer 
County,  Illinois,  in  1837,  and  settled  there, 
being  one  of  the  earliest  pioneers  of  that  county, 
and  where  he  yet  resides,  together  with  all  his 
family.  Their  children  were  (7th  Gen.),  Warren, 
Arthur,  Frank,  2d  Warren  H.,  T.  Corwin,  and 
Amelia. 

7th  Gen.— Warren,  born  December  9th,  1844; 
died  August  22d,  1847. 

Arthur,  born  December  12th,  1847;  married 
Josephine  Dorman,  March  31st,  1876;  she  was 
born  February  19th,  1855.  Have  three  children 
(8th  Gen.),  Mabel  C.,  born  April  1 8th,  1877; 
Dallas  R.,  born  October  4th,  1879;  and  Lizzie 
S.,  born  August  30th,  1881. 

Frank,  son  of  Joseph  B.  and  Nancy  Trego, 
born  May  27th,  1849;  died  April  nth,  1866. 


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Warren  H.,  son  of  Joseph  B.  and  Nancy 
Trego,  born  September  3d,  1853;  married 

Amanda  Eckels,  November  29th,  1882;  she  was 
born  February  4th,  1857.  No  children. 

Thomas  Corwin,  brother  of  Warren  H.,  born 
November  30th,  1857. 

Amelia,  born  August  26th,  1861;  married 
Frank  Purviance,  November  22d,  1883. 

6th  Gen. —  Cyrus,  son  of  Mahlon  and  Rachel 
Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County,  September 
15th,  1810;  married  Susan  Brooks,  of  Newtown, 
May  9th,  1850  ;  she  was  born  October  25th,  1820. 
He  died  in  Mercer  County,  Illinois,  December 
1 2th ,  1866.  Their  children  were: 

7th  Gen. — Ella  M.,  born  June  10th,  1853; 
married  W.  H.  Weaver,  of  Wyanet,  Illinois, 
April  9th,  1879. 

7th  Gen. — Edwin  Augustus,  born  February 
2 1  st,  1856. 

Cyrus  Trego  and  family  resided  in  Bucks 
County  up  to  1865,  when  they  removed  to  Illi¬ 
nois,  where  they  still  reside. 

6th  Gen. — Edward,  son  of  Mahlon  and  Rachel 
Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County,  November  12th, 
1812;  married  Sarah  Fenton,  of  Newtown, 
April  31st,  1836;  she  was  born  December  12th, 


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1817.  They  had  seven  children  (7th  Gen.),  Wil¬ 
liam  Wallace,  Elizabeth  F.,  Charles  T.,  Morris 
H.,  Samuel  Warren,  Mary  T.,  and  Anna  L. 

7th  Gen. — William  Wallace,  son  of  Edward 
and  Sarah  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County, 

March  30th,  1837;  married  Sarah  Bennet,  Sep¬ 
tember  23d,  1861  ;  she  was  born  August  9th, 
1841.  They  have  three  children  (8th  Gen.), 
Mary  Lena,  born  August  4th,  1862;  Lizzie  T., 
born  May  7th,  1864;  and  William  Wallace,  Jr., 
August  8th,  1872. 

7th  Gen.— Elizabeth  F.,  daughter  of  Edward 
and  Sarah  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County, 

November  8th,  1838;  died  January  1 6th,  i860. 

Charles  T.,  born  April  2d,  1842;  died  June 
23d,  1842. 

Morris  H.,  born  December  23d,  1843;  mar¬ 
ried  Josephine  D.  Willard,  January  15th,  1874; 
she  was  born  November  3d,  1849.  They  have 
one  child  (8th  Gen.),  Marion  W.,  born  April  23d, 
I87S- 

Samuel  Warren,  born  June  6th,  1846;  mar¬ 
ried  Hannah  J.  Boucher,  April  27th,  1869;  she 
was  born  September  4th,  1852.  They  have  one 
child  (8th  Gen.),  Edward  T.,  born  February  20th, 
1870. 


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Mary  T.,  born  August  30th,  1848;  married 
John  C.  Copper,  of  Philadelphia,  September, 

1883. 

Anna  L.,  born  January  19th,  1852;  died  Oc¬ 
tober  6th,  1869. 

6th  Gen. — Edward  Trego  and  family  still  re¬ 
side  at  their  native  place,  Newtown,  Bucks 
County,  Pennsylvania. 

6th  Gen. — Mahlon,  Jr.,  son  of  Mahlon  and 
Rachel  Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County,  Sep¬ 
tember  8th,  1815  ;  married  Mary  Ann  Erwin,  of 
Newtown,  October,  1835.  They  removed  to 
Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  died  July, 
1839;  and  she  died  in  Newtown,  in  February, 
1840.  No  children. 

Morris  H.,  son  of  Mahlon  and  Rachel  Trego, 
born  in  Bucks  County,  January  1 8th ,  1819; 
married  Mary  Ann  Bye,  December  27th,  1837; 
she  was  born  1819;  died  June  22d,  1839.  He 
died  of  consumption,  October  14th,  1843.  They 
had  one  child  (7th  Gen.),  Emeline,  born  Decem¬ 
ber  2d,  1838;  died  May  4th,  1839. 

The  foregoing  completes  the  history  of  the 
descendants  of  Mahlon  Trego,  down  to  April, 

1884. 

The  religious  views  and  associations  of  the 


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Bucks  County  branch  of  the  family,  show  that 
they  were  all  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends 
down  to  the  5th  Gen.;  since  then,  many  of  the 
descendants  have  not  formally  retained  their 
rights  of  membership,  but  all,  so  far,  retain  their 
principles. 

5th  Gen. — Joseph  B.,  son  of  William  and 
Rebecca  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County,  10th, 
nth  mo.,  1772.  Had  four  children,  removed  to 
Ohio.  No  record. 

William,  son  of  William  and  Rebecca  Trego, 
born  in  Bucks  County,  29th,  9th  mo.,  1774; 
died  14th,  7th  mo.,  1850,  aged  75  years,  9  mos., 
and  16  days.  Married  Rachel  Taylor  [see  page 
36]. 

6th  Gen. — Charles  Taylor,  son  of  William  and 
Rachel  Taylor  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County, 
April  20th,  1800;  died  1873.  Married  Anna  H. 
Smith.  They  had  four  children. 

7th  Gen. — Emelia,  born  1825  ;  married  Aaron 
Twining,  in  1857.  They  have  one  child  (8th 
Gen.),  Fartnie,  that  I  know  of ;  the  widow  and 
daughter  reside  at  Wrightstown,  Bucks  County. 

Susan,  second  child  of  Charles  T.  and  Rachel 
Trego,  was  born  in  Bucks  County,  in  1827; 
she  married  a  Mr.  Blackfar. 


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George,  brother  of  Susan,  was  born  in  Bucks 
County,  1828;  died  1843. 

Rachel  Anna,  fourth  and  last  child  of  Charles 
T.  and  Rachel  Trego,  was  born  in  1830;  she 
married  a  Mr.  Reeder. 

6th  Gen. — George,  brother  of  Charles  T.,  was 
born  in  1801  ;  died  1829. 

6th  Gen. — Anna  T.,  third  child  of  William 
and  Rebecca  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County, 
May  nth,  1803;  married  Charles  Magill,  in 
1830.  Their  children  were  (7th  Gen.),  Jacob, 
William,  George,  Elizabeth,  and  Anna. 

6th  Gen. — Dr.  Watson  P.,  fourth  child  of 
William  and  Rebecca  Trego,  born  in  Bucks 
County,  June  2d,  1805;  died  1 873.  He 

married  Hannah  Paxton,  July  14th,  1827.  They 
had  nine  children. 

7th  Gen. — Albert  Haller,  born  1828;  died 
1830. 

Howard  Augustus,  born  December  10th,  1829. 

Alfred  Homer,  born  December  21st,  1830. 

Albert  Haller,  the  second  by  same  name,  born 
1833;  died  1834. 

Sarah  Elizabeth,  born  August  8th,  1834. 

Louis  Granville,  born  1836;  died  1840. 

William  T.,  born  October  28th,  1837. 


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George  T.,  born  1841  ;  died  1841. 

Henry  Taylor,  born  1844;  died  1845. 

Howard  Augustus,  son  of  Dr.  Watson  P. 
and  Hannah  P.  Trego,  married  Catherine  H., 
daughter  of  John  and  Jane  Smith,  May  5th, 
1853.  They  have  three  children  : 

8th  Gen. — Helen  W.,  born  September  9th, 
1856;  married  Henry  F.  Church,  December 
13th,  1873.  They  have  one  child  (9th  Gen.), 
Mary  F.,  born  April  5th,  1875. 

8th  Gen. — Lavinia  R.,  their  second  child,  born 
January  5th,  1861.  Not  married. 

Mary  B.,  their  third  child,  born  February 
25th,  1864. 

7th  Gen. — Howard  A.,  is  a  dentist  by  profes¬ 
sion  ;  practices  in  Newtown,  Bucks  County. 

7th  Gen. — Alfred  Homer,  third  child  of  Dr. 
Watson  P.  and  Plannah  P.  Trego,  married  Chris¬ 
tiana  Emery,  November  25th,  1856.  They  had 
two  children  : 

8th  Gen. — Lillie,  born  March  21st,  1858; 
died  April  20th,  1862;  and  Annette,  born 

November  8th,  1868. 

Sarah  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Dr.  Watson  P. 
and  Hannah  P.  Trego,  is  still  living.  Never 
married. 


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William  T.,  seventh  child  of  Dr.  Watson  P. 
and  Hannah  P.  Trego,  married  Anna  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  Howard  L.  Trego,  who  was  a  son 
of  Jacob,  born  1780;  died  1870;  this  would 
make  them  third  cousins.  Anna  Rebecca  was 
born  June  20th,  1835;  married  August  19th, 
1857.  They  have  one  child,  Francis  C.,  born 
July  18th,  1858. 

6th  Gen. — William  C.,  fifth  child  of  William 
and  Rachel  Taylor  Trego,  never  married,  having 
died  at  the  age  of  24  years. 

Elizabeth,  sixth  child  of  William  and  Rachel 
T.  Trego,  born  November  3d,  1810;  she  went 
west  and  married  William  Blackfar,  in  1835. 
They  had  four  children  (7th  Gen.),  William, 
Elizabeth,  Mary  Anna,  and  Samuel. 

Dr.  Alfred,  seventh  child  of  William  and 
Rachel  Trego,  born  March  15th,  1812;  married 
Mercy  A.  Featherby,  in  1839.  They  had  seven 
children : 

7th  Gen. — George  T.,  born  1842. 

Laura,  born  1843. 

Mary,  born  1849. 

Benjamin,  born  1851. 

Isabella,  born  1854. 

Horace,  born  1858. 

Oscar,  born  1862. 


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Dr.  Alfred  Trego  died  some  years  ago.  His 
widow  still  lives  in  Illinois. 

6th  Gen. — Smith,  eighth  child  of  William  and 
Rachel  T.  Trego,  born  January  4th,  1815;  died 
1867.  He  married  Anna  Phillips,  in  1839. 
She  is  now  dead.  They  had  four  children, 

7th  Gen. — Sarah  Jane,  born  1839;  never  mar¬ 
ried. 

Anna  Mary,  born  1841;  died  1859. 

Martha,  born  1846;  married  Judge  D.  New- 
lin  Fell,  of  Philadelphia,  and  now  resides  at  1534 
N.  Broad  St.,  that  city. 

Rachel  Emma,  born  1848;  never  married. 

6th  Gen. — Jonathan  K.,  ninth  child  of  William 
and  Rachel  T.  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County, 
Pa.,  March  nth,  1817,  was  an  artist  by  profes¬ 
sion  ;  he  married  Emily  B.  Thomas,  in  1841. 
They  had  six  children. 

7th  Gen. — Edwin  Horace,  born  1842;  died 
1879.  He  practiced  medicine  for  some  years  in 
Philadelphia,  with  good  success,  and  in  the 
midst  of  a  lucrative  practice  and  in  the  prime  of 
life  was  removed  by  death.  I  have  no  date  of 
the  birth  of  his  two  sisters  (7th  Gen.),  Elma 
Rebecca,  and  Elma  Frances.  Their  sister  Anna 
Louisa  was  born  1852,  and  their  brother  Wil- 


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liam  B.,  known  as  the  boy  artist,  was  born  in 
1858. 

From  the  Cleveland  Press,  1879. 

There  probably  has  never  been,  in  the  whole 
history  of  modern  art — certainly  not  in  this 
country — a  more  remarkable  leap  from  obscurity 
to  fame,  than  has  been  achieved  by  William 
Trego,  the  boy  artist  of  Detroit,  by  his  now  fa¬ 
mous  historical  painting,  entitled  “The  Charge 
of  Custer  at  Winchester.”  For  some  weeks  past 
paragraphs  have  been  floating  around  the  news¬ 
papers,  giving  some  hints  of  his  work  as  it  pro¬ 
gressed,  but  the  public  were  hardly  prepared  for 
the  reception  of  a  painting  of  such  surpassing 
excellence  as  it  proves  to  be.  Indeed,  none  but 
a  favored  few  have  had  access  to  it  until  it  was 
placed  on  exhibition  in  the  art  gallery  of  the 
Michigan  State  Fair.  There,  however,  it  has 
been  seen  and  admired  by  thousands,  and  art 
connoisseurs  universally  agree  that  it  is  one  of  the 
best  historical  paintings  of  the  kind  that  has  ever 
been  produced  by  an  Ameiican  artist. 

As  the  title  indicates,  it  represents  the  famous 
cavalry  charge  of  the  gallant  Custer  at  the  battle 
of  Winchester.  The  principal  figure  is,  of  course, 


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the  yellow-haired  chieftain  mounted  on  his 
blooded  black  charger,  dashing  across  the  field 
at  the  head  of  his  regiment.  His  sword  is  raised 
high  in  air,  and  his  face,  which  is  a  portrait,  ex¬ 
presses  all  the  fire  and  lofty  courage  and  enthu¬ 
siasm  which  characterized  the  man,  and  made 
him  pre-eminent  as  a  cavalry  leader.  Indeed, 
his  whole  attitude  is  expressive,  in  an  eminent 
degree,  of  that  resistless  courage  which  bore 
down  all  opposition,  and  made  him  the  terror  of 
his  foes  and  the  admiration  of  mankind.  The 
figure  of  the  horse  beneath  him  is  in  perfect 
keeping  with  the  rider,  and  both  seem  imbued 
with  the  same  spirit.  Behind,  and  stretching 
out  to  the  middle  ground,  are  his  followers,  in¬ 
spired  by  his  magnetism  and  emulating  his 
gallantry  and  courage,  each  separate  figure  filled 
with  life  and  tempestuous  motion.  Away  in  the 
background,  half  hidden  by  the  smoke  of  battle, 
are  a  battery  of  field-pieces  and  a  line  of  suppor¬ 
ting  infantry.  The  ground  over  which  they  are 
charging  represents  an  old,  worn-out  field,  with 
the  reddish  clay  which  characterizes  the  “sacred 
soil’’  of  Virginia. 

There  is  nothing  in  the  whole  range  of  art  so 
difficult  of  achievement  as  the  representation  of 


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a  troop  of  cavalry  in  rapid  motion.  But  the 
artist  has  overcome  all  difficulties  and  given  a 
scene  replete  with  fiery  energy  and  vigorous 
action.  The  details  of  the  picture  are  also 
admirable  in  their  fidelity  to  nature  and  history, 
and  the  coloring  is  beyond  question  one  of  the 
finest  achievements  of  modern  art. 

The  artist,  William  Trego,  is  a  son  of  J.  K. 
Trego,  formerly  of  Philadelphia,  a  portrait  and 
animal  painter  of  much  more  than  a  local  reputa¬ 
tion,  and  one  of  the  finest  colorists  in  America. 
Of  course  the  son  has  had  from  his  childhood 
the  advantage  of  the  careful  training  of  his 
father  in  all  the  technique  of  art,  and  his  won¬ 
derful  skill  in  drawing  and  coloring  is,  therefore, 
both  hereditary  and  acquired.  The  “Charge  of 
Custer,”  however,  is  purely  an  achievement  of  his 
own  unaided  genius,  as  he  has  neither  sought  nor 
accepted  instructions  or  advice  from  any  one ; 
and  considering  the  fact  that  he  has  not  yet 
attained  his  majority,  the  picture  may  well  be 
considered  as  one  of  the  most  extraordinary 
paintings  ever  produced  by  an  American  artist. 

As  anything  relating  to  the  personality  of  a 
popular  favorite  is  of  surpassing  public  interest, 
it  may  be  well  to  remark  that  it  is  in  one  sense 


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due  to  his  greatest  misfortune  that  Willie  Trego 
has  attained  such  proficiency  with  his  brush  at 
such  an  early  period  of  his  life.  When  he  was 
but  a  child  he  was  stricken  with  disease  which 
resulted  in  the  almost  total  paralysis  of  his  arms 
and  hands,  and  the  partial  paralysis  of  one  of  his 
lower  limbs.  The  result  is  that  he  is  slightly 
lame  in  one  leg  and  almost  totally  helpless  in  his 
arms  and  hands,  and  it  is  apparently  almost 
impossible  for  him  to  handle  a  brush.  There  is, 
probably,  nothing  else  in  the  whole  range  of 
physical  labor  that  he  is  capable  of  doing ;  and 
yet  so  persistent  have  been  his  exertions,  and  so 
deeply  is  he  imbued  with  the  love  of  art,  that  he 
has  overcome  all  physical  defects,  and  the 
strokes  of  his  brush  are  as  vigorous  as  if  he 
possessed  perfect  command  of  all  his  muscles. 
Mentally,  he  is  brighter  than  most  boys  of  his 
age,  and  he  studies  with  an  enthusiasm  and  a 
singleness  of  purpose  that  is  rare,  indeed,  in  one 
so  young.  In  preparing  himself  for  the  task  of 
painting  Custer’s  charge  he  eagerly  devoured 
everything  that  has  ever  been  written  of  his  hero, 
and  is  probably  better  acquainted  with  his  life 
and  character  than  almost  any  other  man  who 
did  not  know  him  personally.  It  is  a  part  of 


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our  human  nature  to  admire  in  others  those 
qualities  which  we  are  prevented  from  exercising 
ourselves,  and  it  is  probable  that  this  accounts 
for  young  Trego’s  penchant  for  portraying  in 
his  pictures  the  intensity  of  tempestuous  phy¬ 
sical  motion.  Debarred  by  misfortune  from  the 
possibility  of  taking  that  physical  exercise  which 
is  so  desirable  in  one  so  young,  he  finds  employ¬ 
ment  in  portraying  it  in  others.  So  bountifully 
does  a  kind  Providence  compensate  the  unfor¬ 
tunate  for  the  loss  of  power  in  one  direction,  by 
bestowing  a  superabundance  of  gifts  in  another. 
Young  Trego  is  peculiarly  modest  and  unobtru¬ 
sive  in  his  manners,  and  rather  shrinks  from 
than  courts  his  present  popularity.  A  brilliant 
future  is  before  him. 

A  Suit  for  a  Prize. 

Philadelphia,  April  5th,  1884. — Wm.  T.  Trego, 
an  artist  of  this  city,  brought  an  action  to-day 
against  the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  Fine  Arts 
for  the  recovery  of  the  $3000  prize  offered  by 
the  Academy  last  fall  for  the  best  picture  upon  a 
Revolutionary  subject.  The  judges  decided  that 
Mr.  Trego’s  picture  was  the  best  entered  for  the 
competition,  but  that  it  was  not  of  sufficient  merit 
to  be  entitled  to  the  prize  offered. 


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7th  Gen. — Benjamin  T.,  sixth  and  last  child  of 
Jonathan  K.  and  Emily  B.  Thomas  Trego,  was 
born  1 86 1. 

6th  Gen. — Horace,  tenth  child  of  William  and 
Rachel  T.  Trego,  was  born  April  5th,  1819.  He 
never  married,  and  is  the  only  one  of  the  family 
now  living ;  he  resides  in  Bucks  County. 

Joseph,  the  eleventh  and  last  child  of  William 
and  Rachel  Taylor  Trego,  was  born  in  1772, 
and  removed  to  Ohio ;  he  had  four  children ; 
am  sorry  that  I  can  give  no  other  information. 

5th  Gen. — Children  of  Jacob  Trego,  born 
October  28th,  1780;  died  October  3d,  1870;  he 
was  the  fifth  one  of  nine  children  of  William, 
who  was  born  1744;  died  1827.  Jacob  married 
Letitia  Smith,  October  12th,  1803  ;  she  was  born 
September  29th,  1782,  and  died  August  1846. 
They  had  eleven  children  : 

6th  Gen. — Smith,  the  first,  born  August  nth, 
1804;  died  August  24th,  1804. 

Howard  L.,  born  in  Bucks  County,  Pa., 
August  1 6th,  1805  ;  he  married  Annie  Tillyer, 
April  4th,  1833;  she  was  born  May  1 6th,  1815. 
In  1842,  he  removed  with  five  of  his  brothers 
to  Ills.,  where  he  was  killed  by  the  falling  of  his 
house,  which  was  struck  by  a  tornado  June  5th, 
1844.  He  had  four  children  : 


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8th  Gen. — Charles,  the  first  child,  born  January 
27th,  1834;  died  July  20th,  1834. 

Ann  Rebecca,  born  June  20th,  1835  ;  married 
William  T.  Trego,  son  of  Dr.  Watson  P.  Trego 
and  grandson  of  William,  August  19th,  1857. 
They  have  one  child  (9th  Gen.),  Frances  C., 
born  July  1 8th,  1858. 

Charles  T.,  the  second  son  of  Howard  L.,  by 
the  same  name,  was  born  December  1 6th ,  1837  ; 
he  married  Medora  Harris,  May  14th,  1863; 
she  was  born  September  3d,  1841.  He  is  now 
engaged  in  business  in  Chicago,  Ills.,  and  is 
senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Trego  &  Smith, 
1 16  and  1 18  La  Salle  St.  They  had  six  children  : 

9th  Gen.— Florence  M.,  born  April  14th, 
1864;  died  April  nth,  1866. 

Charles  Howard,  born  August  29th,  1866. 

Estelle,  born  December  21st,  1870. 

Frank  Harris,  born  November  I  ith,  1872. 

Allen,  born  October  28th,  1875,  and  Medora, 
born  November  20th,  1878;  died  April  19th, 
1879. 

7th  Gen. — Jesse  R.,  fourth  and  last  child  of 
Howard  L.  Trego,  born  December  1842;  and 
killed  at  the  time,  and  by  the  same  tornado  that 
killed  his  father,  June  5th,  1844. 


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6th  Gen. — Allen,  brother  of  Howard  L.,  born 
August  26th,  1807;  married  Kezia  Carver,  Sep¬ 
tember  30th,  1830;  she  was  born  January  16th, 
1812.  They  had  three  children: 

7th  Gen. — Wilson  G.,  born  April  14th,  1833; 
died  September,  1834. 

Watson  C.,  born  July  23d,  1835  ;  he  is  mar¬ 
ried. 

Mary  Ellen,  born  May  8th,  1841  ;  died  De¬ 
cember  7th,  1862. 

6th  Gen. — Curtis  D.,  brother  of  Howard  L. 
and  son  of  Jacob,  born  in  Bucks  County,  Pa., 
September  1 8th,  1809;  he  married  Mary  Gilbert, 
October  30th,  1834.  She  was  born  February 
14th,  1814.  He  was  one  of  the  six  who  removed 
to  Illinois  in  1842,  and  he  now  resides  at  Dexter, 
Iowa.  They  had  nine  children. 

7th  Gen. — Elizabeth  J.,  born  October  4th, 
1835  ;  she  died  October  5th,  1847. 

Alfred  Henry,  born  June  16th,  1838;  he  mar¬ 
ried  Frances  Caroline  Reed.  He  had  five  chil¬ 
dren. 

8th  Gen. — Charles  Henry,  born  August  3d, 
1870. 

Carrie  Jean,  born  June  14th,  1873. 

Percy  Belle,  born  June  20th,  1875;  died  No¬ 
vember  24th,  1875. 


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Edward  Francis,  born  September  22d,  1876. 

Sidney  Reed,  born  October  24th,  1880.  They 
reside  at  Hoopston,  Iowa. 

7th  Gen. — Jacob  Rush,  third  child  of  Curtis 
D.  Trego,  born  September  27th,  1840;  he  mar¬ 
ried  Hannah  Wilkins,  and  now  resides  at  Wiola, 
Iowa.  They  have  five  children  (8th  Gen.),  Ida 
Eva,  born  July  12th,  1864;  Mary  Frances,  born 
January  18th,  1868;  Clarence  Wilkins,  born 
July  1st,  1872;  Helen  Gertrude,  born  Novem¬ 
ber  9th,  1876;  and  Rush  Roy,  born  January 
8th,  1882. 

7th  Gen. — Letitia  Ann,  fourth  child  of  Curtis 
D.,  born  February  12th,  1842;  married  Almon 
Clark.  They  have  four  children  (8th  Gen.), 
Faura  May,  born  November  21st,  1868;  Cora 
Bell,  born  January  25th,  1870;  Emma  T.,  born 
September  30th,  1873;  and  Grace  Favina,  born 
May  1 6th,  1877. 

7th  Gen. — Mary  Emma,  fifth  child  of  Curtis 
D.,  born  July  12th,  1848;  married  William  L. 
Kendall.  They  had  but  one  child  (8th  Gen.), 
Curtis  Trego  Kendall,  born  July  8th,  1872,  and 
died  September  4th,  1872.  They  reside  at  Dex¬ 
ter,  Iowa. 

7th  Gen. — Frederick,  sixth  child  of  Curtis  D., 
born  August  8th,  1850;  he  is  not  married. 


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Frank  Weston,  seventh  child  of  Curtis  D., 
born  July  4th,  1853  >  died  November  13th,  1865. 

Helen  R.,  eighth  child  of  Curtis  D.,  born  June 
13th,  1855;  married  Joseph  Engle.  They  have 
two  children  (8th  Gen.),  Minnie  Estella,  born 
May  22d,  1876;  and  Edgar  Curtis,  born  Septem¬ 
ber  9th,  1879. 

7th  Gen. — Lavinia,  ninth  and  last  child  of 
Curtis  D.  Trego,  was  born  March  19th,  1857; 
she  is  not  married. 

6th  Gen. — Henry  S.  Trego,  brother  of  Curtis 
D.,and  son  of  Jacob,  was  born  in  Bucks  County, 
Pa.,  December  29th,  1811.  He  removed  to  Illi¬ 
nois  in  1842,  and  now  resides  at  Orion  in  that 
state.  He  married  Rebecca  B.  Engle  in  1848. 
They  had  two  children  (7th  Gen.),  Willett,  born 
June  19th,  1849;  I  am  not  informed  if  he  is  mar¬ 
ried.  Lucretia  M.,  second  child  of  Henry  S., 
born  August  14th,  1852.  She  married  William 
Creig,  but  is  now  dead. 

6th  Gen. — Eleanor,  sister  of  Henry  S.,  born 
February  8th,  1814;  died  May  8th,  1826. 

Thomas  W.,  brother  of  Curtis  D.  and  Henry 
S.,  born  May  13th,  1816.  He  married  Elizabeth 
B.  Betts,  August  21st,  1851.  She  was  born 
March  21st,  1821.  They  have  five  children,  all 
living. 


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7th  Gen. — Nellie  H.,  born  May  ioth,  1854; 
married  Hamilton  Henry  Gilkyson,  March  4th, 
1880;  (they  have  (8th  Gen.),  one  child,  Thomas 
Walter,  born  December  1 8th ,  1880.)  Thomas 
Walter,  born  October  29th,  1855;  Joseph  Rus¬ 
sell,  born  April  28th,  1858;  Edward  Augustus, 
born  Dec.  15th,  1859;  an<^  M.  Sidney,  born  De¬ 
cember  9th,  1862. 

6th  Gen. —  Rebecca,  sister  of  Curtis  D.,  born 
July  22d,  1818  ;  married  Jonathan  W.  Woodruff, 
December  24th,  1844.  He  was  born  May  nth, 
1818.  They  never  had  children. 

6th  Gen. — Elias  H.,  brother  of  Rebecca,  born 
March  15th,  1821  ;  died  October  27th,  1826. 

Joseph  H.,  M.D.,  brother  of  those  above,  born 
in  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  May  9th,  1823.  He  mar¬ 
ried  Alice  Manington  in  1850;  she  was  born 
November  17th,  1832.  They  have  nine  children, 
all  girls.  Joseph  H.  graduated  at  Jefferson 
Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  March,  1849. 
practiced  medicine  in  Illinois  and  Kansas  until 
1861  ;  was  in  the  volunteer  service  during  the 
war,  but,  owing  to  long  and  continued  exposure 
while  in  the  South,  lost  his  health,  which  unfitted 
him  for  the  arduous  duties  required  of  a  general 
practitioner.  Since  January,  1865,  has  been 


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continuously  in  official  business.  Is  now  en¬ 
gaged  in  a  general  land,  loan,  and  collection 
agency,  and  he  is  also  a  Notary  Public,  in 
Mound  City,  Kansas,  where  he  resides. 

7th  Gen. — His  first  daughter,  Kate  L.,  born 
1851,  married  Cortland  L.  Long  in  1873; 
Eleanor,  born  1853,  married  William  B.  Helm, 
in  1875;  Helen  W.,  born  1855,  married  Robert 
Fleming,  1880;  Rebecca  W.,  born  1859;  Sophia 
M.,  born  1862;  Louie  M.,  born  1866;  Sarah 
W.,  born  1868;  Octie,  born  1872;  and  Martha, 
born  1876.  I  regret  that  I  am  unable  to  give 
dates  of  birth,  marriages,  &c.,  and  children,  if 
any. 

6th  Gen. — Yardley  Briggs,  son  of  Jacob  and 
Letitia  Trego,  born  in  Bucks  County,  Penn¬ 
sylvania,  October  1 6th ,  1826.  In  1846  his  father 
and  family  removed  to  Mercer  County,  Illinois, 
where  he  married  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Owen 
and  Urith  Dean,  August  26th,  1857.  She  was 
born  in  Illinois,  June  7th,  1837.  They  for  some 
time  resided  in  Mercer  County,  afterwards  re¬ 
moving  to  Deanington,  now  Orion  County, 
Illinois,  and  from  thence  to  Keswick,  Iowa,  in 
1865,  where  his  father  gave  him  a  farm  of  forty 
acres.  In  the  fall  of  1875  he  sold  the  forty 


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acres,  and  bought  eighty  acres  near  Keswick,  in 
Keokuk  County,  Iowa,  where  he  now  resides. 
They  have  five  children  (7th  Gen.),  Charles 
Davis,  Effie  Anna,  Medora  Belle,  Willet  D.,  and 
Byrd  Allison. 

Charles  D.,  born  in  Mercer  County,  Illinois, 
July  1st,  1858;  married  Leni  Leoti  Pierce, 
August  28th,  1876.  They  built  the  first  house 
in  Keswick,  now  quite  a  village,  They  now 
reside  near  Kellogg,  Jasper  County,  Iowa.  They 
have  two  children  (8th  Gen.),  Forrest  Franklin, 
born  September  4th,  1877;  and  Mabel  Keswick, 
born  December  6th,  1879. 

7th  Gen. — Effie  Anna,  born  in  Henry  County, 
Illinois,  September  22d,  1861  ;  was  married  to 
Milton  F.  Deal,  of  Iowa,  August  31st,  1884,  by 
the  Rev.  H.  Rosenberger  of  the  P.  M.  Church. 
Mr.  Deal  was  born  in  Mercer  County,  Ohio, 
August  28th,  1855,  and  removed  to  Iowa  with  his 
parents  in  1865. 

Medora  Belle,  born  in  same  county,  October 
6th,  1863. 

Willet  D.,  born  in  Washington  County,  Iowa, 
June  2 1st,  1866. 

Byrd  Allison,  born  in  Scott  County,  Iowa, 
August  2d,  1868. 


SECOND  PART. 


Having  completed  the  history  of  Jacob  Trego 
and  his  descendants,  we  will  now  take  up  that  of 
William,  his  brother. 

2d  Gen. — William,  third  child  of  Peter,  Sr., 
and  Judith  Trego,  was  born  near  Honeybrook, 
Chester  County,  6th  mo.,  3d,  1693,  and  died 
there  in  1770.  Married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
John  Moore,  June  26th,  1717,  in  Goshen.  (See 
pages  14,  15,  86.  They  had  nine  children,  three 
sons  and  six  daughters. 

3d  Gen.. — Margaret,  their  first-born,  married 
a  Mr.  McPherson. 

Hannah,  their  second-born,  married  a  Mr. 
Hickman. 

Benjamin,  their  third  child,  born  in  Chester 
County,  in  1730.  He  had  six  children:  Ben¬ 
jamin,  Emmor,  Edith  (married  a  Mr.  White), 
Mary  (married  a  Mr.  Weaver),  Bathsheba  (mar¬ 
ried  a  Mr.  Ash),  and  Hannah  (married  a  Mr. 
Matlock).  See  page  16. 

4th  Gen. — Benjamin  and  Emmor  both  died 
unmarried. 


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Mrs.  Mary  Weaver  had  four  children  (5th 
Gen.),  her  first-born,  Edith,  married  a  Mr.  Hart¬ 
man  ;  her  second  child,  Emmor  T.,  removed  to 
Ohio  ;  have  no  record  of  her  third  child,  Isaac ; 
her  fourth  and  last  child,  named  Maria,  married 
a  Mr.  John  Rutter,  attorney  at  law,  in  West 
Chester,  Pennsylvania. 

Bathsheba  Ash  had  two  sons,  John  P.  and 
Martin.  They  both  removed  to  Illinois.  Have 
no  record  of  them. 

3d  Gen. — Elizabeth  and  Mary,  daughters  of 
William,  and  sisters  of  the  first  Benjamin, 
married  two  brothers,  sons  of  Randal  Malin, 
mentioned  in  former  pages  in  connection  with 
certain  lands. 

Their  sisters :  Sarah  married  a  Mr.  Eaches, 
and  Ann  a  Mr.  Hunt. 

[Letter  from  Jared  P.  Irwin  to  the  late  Charles 

B.  Trego ,  sent  me  by  R.  S.  Trego  in  1884.] 

Brandywine  Manor,  April  10 th,  1848. 
My  very  dear  sir : 

What  I  have  seen,  permit  me  to  relate. 

Having  obtained  some  additional  facts  relative 
to  our  ancestry,  I  hasten  to  communicate  them 
to  you.  My  venerable  uncle  Absalom,  who 


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still  occupies  the  old  Trego  homestead,  informed 
me  that  he  had  long  since  seen  an  old  record  of 
the  family,  but  that  he  believed  that  it  was  worn 
out  and  entirely  lost  many  years  ago.  At  this 
I  felt  grieved,  and  asked  permission  to  have  a 
peep  into  the  old  family  archives,  which  he 
kindly  permitted,  and  after  ransacking  diligently 
for  some  hours  we  found  about  twenty  small 
slips  of  the  record ,  torn  in  every  possible  shape 
and  form.  I  went  to  work  fixing  and  pasting 
together,  and  after  a  half  day’s  hard  toiling,  I 
succeeded  in  bringing  from  nonentity,  almost,  the 
following  very  interesting  record: 

William,  son  of  Peter  and  Judith  Trego,  born 
July  3d,  1693. 

Children  of  William  and  Margaret  Trego  : 

1.  Joseph,  born  May  14th,  1722. 

2.  Hannah  Hickman,  born  May  19th,  1724. 

3.  William,  born  January  8th,  1726. 

4.  Margaret  McFerson,  born  March  28th, 
1728. 

5.  Benjamin,  born  June  2d,  1730. 

6.  Joseph  (2d),  born  February  21st,  1732. 

7.  Elizabeth  Malin,born  November  16th,  1733. 

8.  Mary  Malin,  born  August  14th,  1735. 


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9-  Sarah  Eaches,  born  August  26th,  1737. 

10.  Ann  Hunt,  born  May  5th,  1739. 

Margaret,  daughter  of  John  and  Margaret 
Moore,  born  April  24th,  1699;  married  William 
Trego,  June  26th,  1717. 

Joseph  Trego  and  Alice  Piersol ;  married 
October  1  ith,  1753. 

Their  children : 

1.  William,  born  September  1  Sth ,  1754;  died 
1814. 

2.  Moses,  born  September  22d,  1759;  died 
1791. 

3.  Alice  Millison,  born  November  10th,  1761  ; 
died  1807. 

4.  Joseph,  born  December  14th,  1763;  died 
1794. 

5.  Eli,  born  February  1st,  1766;  died  1825. 

6.  Margaret  Irwin,  born  February  2d,  1767. 

7.  James,  born  April  23d,  1769;  died  1792. 

8.  Jeremiah,  born  July  30th,  1 77 1  ;  died  1830. 

9.  Sarah,  born  September  14th,  1773;  died 
1796. 

10.  Absalom,  born  March  31st,  1776. 

11.  Hannah  Lewis,  born  October  28th,  1778; 
died  1846. 


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You  see  William  had  two  sons  called  Joseph. 
The  first  when  about  six  years  old  was  riding  a 
horse  to  the  field,  when  a  big  Irish  girl,  who  was 
guiding  the  horse,  fell  off  upon  the  little  boy 
and  killed  him.  On  the  right  hand  column  of 
the  preceding  page  I  have  given  you  my  grand¬ 
father’s  issue.  You  see  they  have  all  gone  to 
rest,  save  my  mother  and  Absalom.  Joseph  died 
October  29th,  1806,  aged  near  75  years.  His 
wife  (7 ny  grandmother)  died  January  19th,  1820, 
aged  85  years.  Yet  the  most  of  their* children, 
as  you  can  see,  died  rather  young. 

My  grandfather  was  a  very  active  business 
man;  he  left  home  in  the  morning  before  break¬ 
fast  on  a  short  errand,  had  a  paralytic  stroke,  fell 
from  his  horse,  and  the  noble  animal  stood  by 
his  side  without  moving  a  foot  for  some  hours, 
when  he  was  found,  conveyed  home  insensible, 
and  died  same  evening  at  the  old  homestead  in 
Honeybrook. 

Benjamin,  his  elder  brother,  lived  and  died  in 
Goshen,  in  a  good  old  age.  He  had  two  sons, 
Emor  and  Benjamin,  Jr.,  and  four  daughters. 
His  daughters  were  Hannah  Matlack,  Edith 
White,  Mary  Weaver,  and  Bathsheba  Ash. 
They  are  all  dead  but  Mrs.  Ash,  who  lives  in 


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Alton,  Ills.  She  has  two  sons,  one  of  whom  is 
married  to  my  sister,  and  has  seven  sons. 

Mrs.  Weaver  has  Emor  Trego  Weaver,  Isaac, 
Edith  Hartman,  Elizabeth  Weaver,  and  Maria 
Rutter,  of  Westchester.  Emor  and  Benjamin 
both  died  in  celibacy,  hence  the  name  from  that 
branch  is  extinct.  Emor  .was  a  great  limner, 
went  to  England,  painted  for  his  Majesty,  ac¬ 
quired  a  clever  fortune,  put  his  trunks  on  board 
a  vessel,  but  by  some  accident  missed  the  vessel, 
came  in  another,  but  his  trunks,  money,  and  the 
vessel  were  all  lost.  He  afterwards  went  to 
Tennessee,  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land,  and 
died  there  rather  young.  He  was  said  to  be  the 
handsomest  man  in  Chester  County.  He  was 
gentlemanly  and  polite  in  his  manners  to  a  pro¬ 
verb,  and  loved  by  everybody. 

William,  the  eldest  son,  who  owned  part  of 
the  original  tract  in  Honeybrook,  and  which  is 
still  held  by  his  descendants,  I  believe,  every 
foot  of  it,  as  well  as  my  grandfathers.  He 
reared  the  following  children:  ist.  Hannah 
Clemson.  2d,  Isaac  Trego,  who  died  about  four  or 
five  years  ago,  aged  85  ;  he  has  three  daughters 
living  in  Kennet  Square  (maids),  but  no  son  liv¬ 
ing, — three  died  bachelors,  hence  the  name  will 


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soon  be  extinct  there.  3d,  Sarah  Way.  4th, 
Reuben,  who  has  three  sons  living,  viz  :  Emor, 
near  the  Warwick  mines,  Jesse  and  Cyrus.  5th, 
Peter,  died  a  year  or  two  ago,  aged  82  years. 
He  has  living,  William,  John,  George,  Robert, 
Benjamin,  Levi  and  Davis,  in  all  seven,  and  all 
married  and  have  .children.  6th,  Jacob,  who 
has  Evan,  Isaac,  William  and  James.  But  I 
find  I  will  never  get  done,  so  I  will  try  and  put 
them  all  into  a  tree  and  send  them  to  you,  so 
that  you  may  burn  them  or  do  as  you  please  with 
them.  [I  have  his  original  tree,  as  likewise  one 
by  Charles  B.  Trego  of  the  entire  Trego  family, 
which  I  have  twice  enlarged  by  adding  many 
new  names  —  Shertzer.]  But  then  what  has 
become  of  James  and  John,  your  great-grand¬ 
father,  not  one  word  can  I  find  of  them? 

The  land  owned  by  the  Tregos  in  Honeybrook 
was  first  entered  by  John  Moore,  my  great-great¬ 
grandfather,  in  March,  1718,  but  I  think  no  deed 
was  made  until  1733,  when  it  was  deeded  to 
my  great-grandfather,  William  Trego,  and  in 
giving  the  distances  it  says,  “joining  on  the  west 
by  lands  of  James  Trego.’’  Now  by  reference 
to  Mr.  Painter’s  letter,  you  will  see  that  in  No¬ 
vember  of  same  year,  1733,  my  great-grand- 


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father,  William  Trego,  conveyed  the  old  home¬ 
stead,  in  Delaware  County,  to  James  Trego. 
My  mother,  the  oldest  Trego  living,  still  con¬ 
tends  that  her  uncle  James  ( this  is  an  error ,  it 
was  Joint)  went  to  Bucks  County,  and  that  they 
never  heard  of  his  death.  Now  if  he  is  not  a 
son  of  James,  then  Sailor  Jack  is.  My  mother 
says  she  saw  this  Jack  about  the  year  1773,  and 
that  he  appeared  to  be  30  or  40  years  of  age 
then,  consequently  was  born  about  the  year  1738. 

There  are  only  three  now  living  of  the  third 
generation  of  the  Chester  County  branch,  viz  : 
My  mother,  Absalom  and  Bathsheba  Ash,  of 
Illinois. 

You  see  that  two  of  old  William’s  daughters 
married  two  brothers,  sons  of  Randal  Malin,  the 
person  mentioned  in  Mr.  Painter’s  letter.  My 
grandfather  was  often  heard  to  speak  of  Randal 
Malin. 

The  name  in  Mr.  Painter’s  letter  agrees  pre¬ 
cisely  with  this  old  record,  so  there  can  be  no 
mistake  about  our  old  persecuted  Huguenot  an¬ 
cestor  Peter  Trego,  who  no  doubt  left  France  in 
1685,  tarried  two  or  three  years  in  England, 
(according  to  tradition),  and  arrived  here  prior 
to  1690.  The  tradition  is,  that  the  first  of  the 


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name  in  this  country  came  from  France,  and  as 
I  could  not  trace  the  name  farther  back  than  the 
three  brothers,  I  committed  an  error  in  a  former 
communication  to  you,  which  you  will  please 
expunge  from  your  sketch  book. 

Yours  truly, 

Jared  P.  Irwin. 

To  Charles  B.  Trego. 

Jared  P.  Irwin  says  Peter  Trego  arrived  in 
this  country  prior  to  1690;  it  has  been  already 
shown  by  the  Chester  Monthly  Meeting,  that  his 
son  Jacob  was  born  1687,  &c. 

3d  Gen. — William,  son  of  William,  grandson 
of  Peter,  Sr.,  born  near  Honeybrook,  Chester 
County,  Pennsylvania,  in  1726.  Am  unable  to 
say  who  or  when  he  married.  He  as  well  as 
his  children  adhered  to  the  religion  of  their 
fathers,  viz.  Quakers.  He  had  five  children,  four 
sons  and  one  daughter. 

4th  Gen. — His  first  child,  Hannah,  married  a 
Mr.  Clemson.  Can  find  no  accounts  of  her 
family.  Their  second  child,  Peter,  my  great¬ 
grandfather,  born  near  Honeybrook,  in  1765, 
and  died  there  in  1846.  He  had  fifteen  children, 
namely  (5th  Gen.):  Benjamin,  Robert,  George, 


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William,  John,  Levi,  David,  Elizabeth,  Julia, 
Anna,  Mary  and  Christiana,  and  three  others. 
Am  unable  to  give  the  order  of  their  births  and 
deaths.  Benjamin  had  five  children ;  he  lived 
and  died  near  Oakland  Mills,  Juniata  County, 
Pennsylvania.  Robert  had  three  children  (6th 
Gen.),  Martin,  Mary,  and  Christiana.  Can  get 
no  accounts  of  them.  George  had  four  children, 
though  I  can  only  give  an  account  of  three, 
Jacob,  George  and  Fannie.  Can  give  no  records 
of  births,  &c.  Jacob  died  in  California ;  the 
other  three  married  in  the  Van  Norman  family, 
and  are  living  near  Oakland  Mills,  Juniata 
County,  Pennsylvania. 

5th  Gen. — William,  my  grandfather,  born  near 
Honeybrook,  in  July,  1776,  and  died  there 
February  12th,  1861.  He  married  Mary  Neal,  of 
Lancaster  County,  Pennsylvania,  in  July,  1818. 
He  lived  and  died  on  a  farm  presented  by  his 
father,  adjoining  the  homestead;  they  had  four 
children,  three  daughters  and  one  son  (6th  Gen.) : 
Catherine,  born  1824,  died  1826;  Lavina,  born 
1829,  died  1849;  Mary,  born  1822;  William, 
born  1819,  died  October,  1861.  All  members  of 
the  society  of  Friends.  William,  their  first,  born 
near  Honeybrook,  in  July,  1819,  and  died  of 


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consumption,  near  Lancaster  City,  Pennsylvania, 
October,  1861,  on  his  farm,  upon  which  he  had 
resided  for  several  years.  He  married  Mary 
Maul,  of  Carlisle,  in  1842.  She  died,  May,  1853. 
They  had  five  children,  two  daughters  and  three 
sons  (7th  Gen.),  Mary  A.,  born  1843;  Jane,  born 
1845;  William,  born  1847,  died  1851;  Daniel, 
born  1849,  died  1849;  John,  born  1854. 

Mary,  his  first,  born  in  1843,  married  James 
Brown, and  now  resides  in  Carlisle,  Pennsylvania. 

Jane,  their  second,  born  June  15th,  1845.  She 
was  a  very  handsome  blonde,  rather  tall,  and  of 
very  fine  figure,  with  large  lustrous  gray  eyes. 
She  married  Major  Richard  Graham, U.  S.  Army. 
He  was  killed  by  the  Indians,  in  1864,  in  Arizona. 
She  is  now  the  wife  of  David  Mock,  of  Chicago, 
Illinois. 

William,  third  child  of  William,  was  born  in 
1847,  died  in  1851. 

Daniel,  fourth,  born  1849;  died  1849. 

John,  their  fifth  and  last  child,  was  born,  as 
were  the  others,  on  their  father’s  farm  near  Lan¬ 
caster,  in  1854;  killed  by  having  the  top  of  his 
head  kicked  off  by  a  horse,  in  1857. 

6th  Gen. — Mary,  my  mother,  daughter  of 
William,  and  granddaughter  of  Peter,  born  near 


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Honeybrook,  July  20th,  1822;  married  Jacob 
Shertzer,  of  Petersburg,  Lancaster  County,  Pa., 
February  3d,  1841.  He  was  born  near  Peters¬ 
burg,  June  15th,  1820.  He  has  always  been  a 
farmer,  and  member  of  the  M.  E.  Church,  as  are 
all  the  the  family,  except  myself,  I  belonging  to 
the  P.  E.  Church.  Mother  up  to  the  time  of  her 
marriage  belonged  to  the  Friends,  whose  customs 
she  still  adheres  too. 

Children  of  Jacob  and  Mary  Trego  Shertzer 
(from  family  records): 

7th  Gen. — Mary  Ann,  born  4th  mo.,  14th, 
1842,  1 1.30  P.  M. 

Abram  Trego,  born  5th  mo.,  1 6th,  1844,  8.30 
P.  M. 

Isaac  Peter,  born  2d  mo.,  nth,  1846,  8  A.  M. 

Jacob  Henry,  born  12th  mo.,  17th,  1847,  9.30 
P.  M. 

David  William,  born  2d  mo.,  20th,  1850,  4 
A.  M. 

Catherine  Elizabeth,  born  4th  mo.,  1 8th ,  1852, 

4.30  P.  M. 

Anna  Elizabeth,  born  7th  mo.,  10th,  1854, 

4.30  P.  M. 

Benjamin  Franklin,  born  3d  mo.,  30th,  1856, 

12.30  P.  M. 


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Hannah  Elizabeth,  bom  nth  mo.,  8th,  1857, 

9.30  P.  M. 

Fannie  Priscilla,  born  4th  mo.,  13th,  i860, 

3.30  P.  M. 

John  Amos,  born  4th  mo.,  27th,  1862,  4.30 
P.  M. 

Henry  Reuben,  born  7th  mo.,  1 2th,  1864,  3.30 
P.  M. 

Mary  A.,  born  April  14th,  1842,  never  mar¬ 
ried,  and  now  resides  in  Petersburg,  Pa.,  with  her 
grandmother  and  bachelor  uncle,  father’s  side. 
She  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church. 

A.  Trego  Shertzer,  M.  D.,  was  born  in  Lan¬ 
caster  County,  Pa.,  May  1 6th,  1844.  In  his 
ninth  year  his  parents  removed  with  him  to  Bal¬ 
timore  County  and  placed  him  at  the  Grinton 
Academy,  which  he  attended  for  six  years.  In 
1859  he  entered  the  Belair  Academy,  Harford 
County,  Md.,  where  he  continued  his  studies  for 
three  years.  In  1862,  he  went  to  Philadelphia, 
where  he  entered  as  apothecary  to  the  Naval 
Asylum,  which  was  at  that  time  under  the  charge 
of  Dr.  David  Harlan,  Surgeon  U.  S.  Navy. 
Whilst  at  the  Asylum  he  studied  medicine  in 
the  office  of  Dr.  Lenox  Hodges,  Professor  of 
Obstetrics  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 


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He  remained  at  the  Asylum,  acquiring  practical 
pharmaceutical  and  general  medical  experience, 
and  also  continuing  his  studies  with  Professor 
Hodges,  until  the  spring  of  that  year,  when, 
March  6th,  he  was  appointed  Surgeon  Apothe¬ 
cary  in  the  U.  S.  Navy  and  ordered  to  duty  on 
board  the  U.  S.  Steamer  Mary  Sanford,  of  the 
South  Atlantic  Blockading  Squadron,  remaining 
with  her  during  her  cruises  among  the  Bahamas, 
the  West  Indies  and  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  and  re¬ 
turning  with  her  to  Philadelphia  in  the  ensuing 
fall,  where  he  resumed  the  study  of  medicine  in 
the  office  of  Dr.  Joseph  Leidy,  Professor  of 
Anatomy  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 
Mr.  Shertzer  remained  in  Philadelphia  until  the 
winter  of  1867,  when  he  entered  the  Naval 
Academy,  Annapolis,  as  apothecary  of  the  first 
class,  occupying  that  position  until  November, 
1868,  when  he  commenced  a  regular  course  of 
medical  studies  by  matriculating  at  the  Univer¬ 
sity  of  Maryland  and  entering,  as  a  private  stu¬ 
dent,  the  office  of  the  late  Professor  Nathan  R. 
Smith.  Under  the  instruction  of  that  eminent 
surgeon  and  physician,  and  by  reason  of  his  own 
talent  and  application,  student  Shertzer  became 
particularly  efficient  in  anatomy  and  surgery, 


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and  in  the  private  and  university  examinations 
always  acquitted  himself  with  great  credit.  In 
the  spring  of  1869  he  graduated  with  honor  at 
that  institution.  Soon  after  his  graduation  Dr. 
Shertzer  was  elected  as  assistant  surgeon  of  the 
Eighth  Maryland  Regiment,  and  was  also  ap¬ 
pointed  surgeon  in  charge  of  the  hospital  for 
disabled  soldiers  in  Baltimore,  and  entered  regu¬ 
larly  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  the 
corner  of  Exeter  and  Granby  streets,  where  he 
continued  in  its  successful  prosecution  until  the 
breaking  out  of  the  Franco-Prussian  War  in  the 
spring  of  1870.  Bismarck  having  called  upon  the 
German  Patriot  Aid  Society  of  America  for  sur¬ 
geons,  the  branch  society  of  Baltimore  appointed 
a  board  of  examiners,  consisting  of  Drs.  Abram 
B.  Arnold,  G.  Edward  Pape,  and  L.  F.  Mora- 
witz,  to  examine  such  candidates  as  might 
appear  before  them,  through  notification  in  the 
public  press.  Dr.  Shertzer  passed  a  most  credi¬ 
table  and  successful  examination,  not  only  in  sur¬ 
gery,  the  grand  essential,  but  in  general  medi¬ 
cine  and  in  German,  a  perfect  knowledge  of  the 
latter  also  being  indispensable.  He  was  immedi¬ 
ately  sent  to  Germany,  via  New  York  and  Glas¬ 
gow,  making  his  way  to  Coblentz,  on  the  Rhine, 


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where  he  had  been  ordered  to  report  for  duty. 
He  remained  in  the  Garrison  Hospital  at  Cob- 
lentz,  performing,  in  the  most  skilful  manner,  all 
the  most  important  capital  operations  of  an  army 
surgeon  until  October  ioth,  1870,  when  he  was 
sent  to  take  charge  of  Ritebahn  Hospital,  Saar- 
brucken,  on  the  frontier  of  France  and  Prussia. 
While  there  he  was  sent  to  Meaux,  Metz,  and 
other  places  in  France,  to  apply  the  anterior 
splint  of  the  late  Professor  N.  R.  Smith,  his  old 
preceptor  in  the  Maryland  University,  he  being 
the  only  surgeon  in  the  Prussian  service  who 
was  thoroughly  conversant  with  the  proper 
method  of  applying  that  valuable  surgical  ap¬ 
paratus.  P'or  his  efficient  services  Dr.  Shertzer 
received  a  gold  medal  from  the  Hospital  Com¬ 
mission  of  Prussia,  and  also  the  iron  cross, 
and  a  silver  medal  from  the  Prussian  Secre¬ 
tary  of  War.  'He  resigned  his  position  in 
the  Prussian  service  May  14th,  1871,  and  after 
making  an  extensive  tour  through  Switzer¬ 
land,  Germany,  Italy,  France,  England  and 
other  countries,  visiting  en  route  the  leading 
hospitals  of  those  countries,  he  returned  to 
America  in  the  fall  of  1871,  and  re-established 
himself  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  his 


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old  location  in  Baltimore,  in  which  he  has  since 
continued  uninterruptedly,  distinguishing  him¬ 
self  by  the  performance  of  many  difficult  surgi¬ 
cal  operations,  with  scarcely  a  single  fatal  result. 
Very  soon  after  his  return  to  Baltimore  he  was 
appointed  recruiting  surgeon  for  the  U.  S.  Marine 
Corps,  and  also  recruiting  surgeon  for  the  Army, 
which  was  then  operating  against  the  Modoc  In¬ 
dians.  Declined  the  Chair  of  Professor  Opera¬ 
tive  Surgery  in  1875.  Dr.  Shertzer’s  ances¬ 
tors,  on  the  paternal  side,  were,  for  three  gen¬ 
erations,  natives  of  this  country,  all  of  them 
farmers.  As  the  name  would  imply,  they 
were  of  German  descent,  coming  from  the 
Rhenish  Provinces.  The  mother  of  Dr. 
Shertzer  is  a  daughter  of  the  late  William 
Trego,  of  Chester  County,  Pa.,  whose  father, 
grandfather,  and  great  grandfather,  bearing  the 
same  name  [this  is  an  error,  my  great-grand¬ 
father’s  name  was  Peter],  trace  their  pedigree  back 
to  an  illustrious  progenitor,  known  as  “  Peter  the 
Great,”  of  the  House  of  Bourbon,  who  was 
banished  from  France  in  1 584,  and,  coming  to 
America  the  same  year,  settled  in  Chester 
County,  Pennsylvania.  From  him  all  the  Tregos 
in  the  United  States  descended. — National  Bio- 


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graphical  Cyclopaedia  of  Representative  Men  of 
Maryland  and  District  of  Columbia. 

A.  Trego  Shertzer,  M.  D.,  married  Sarah  C., 
daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  John  Tyrrel  and  Marga- 
rette  Gray  Bradbury,  of  North  Carolina,  October 
7th,  1875.  Both  being  members  of  the  Episcopal 
Church,  the  marriage  service  was  performed  by 
Bishop  Alfred  Lee,  of  Delaware.  She  was  born 
on  Roanoke  Island,  North  Carolina,  January  8th, 
1846.  We  have  two  children  (8th  Gen.),  Tyrrel 
Bradbury,  born  in  Baltimore,  August  21st,  1876, 
and  Edna  Gray  Howard,  born  in  Baltimore,  De¬ 
cember  7th,  1882. 

Isaac  P.,  my  brother,  was  born  February  1  ith, 
1846;  married  Mary  E.,  daughter  of  Daniel  and 
Rachel  Price,  of  Baltimore  County,  Maryland, 
July  19th,  1874.  She  was  born  May  16th,  1855. 
They  have  three  children:  Henry  A.,  born  April 
30th,  1875  ;  Annie  E.,  born  October  1 8th,  1876; 
and  Lillie  V.,  born  March  14th,  1880,  all  in 
Baltimore  County.  They  are  members  of  the 
Methodist  Church.  He  is  a  farmer  and  artist. 

Jacob  H.,born  December  17th,  1847;  married 
Anna  Mary,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Henrietta 
Cronhardt,  January  13th,  1875.  They  have  four 
children  :  Mary,  Cora  L.,  Lenard  and  Henrietta. 


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He  owns  a  fine  farm  at  Timber  Grove,  Baltimore 
County,  Maryland,  where  he  resides. 

David  W.,  born  February  20th,  1850.  He 
owns  a  fine  farm  upon  which  he  resides,  near 
Mount  Washington,  Baltimore  County,  Mary¬ 
land  ;  married  Kate,  daughter  of  William  and 
Sarah  Collins,  of  Baltimore  County,  October 
1 8th,  1877.  She  was  born  January  25th,  1854. 
They  have  two  children  :  Monroe  and  Bertha. 

Catherine  E.,  born  in  Baltimore  County,  Mary¬ 
land,  April  1 8th,  1852;  married  August  Hart¬ 
man,  of  Baltimore  County,  a  manufacturer  of 
agricultural  implements. 

Anna  E.,  born  in  Baltimore  County,  August 
loth,  1854.  She  was  drowned  in  a  spring,  July 
28th,  1856. 

Benjamin  F.,  born  in  Baltimore  County,  March 
30th,  1856.  He  is  general  salesman  with  Hood, 
Bonbright  &  Co.,  Philadelphia.  He  is  an  active 
member  in  the  Methodist  Church,  frequently 
assisting  ministers  in  their  ministerial  work. 

Hannah  E.,  born  in  Baltimore  County,  Novem¬ 
ber  8th,  1857.  She  married  Charles  Ohme,  of 
Litiz,  Lancaster  County,  Pennsylvania,  where 
they  reside.  Have  two  children. 

Fannie  P.,  born  in  Harford  County,  Maryland, 
April  13th,  i860;  not  married. 


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John  A.,  born  in  Harford  County,  Maryland, 
April  27th,  1862;  died  there  December  20th, 
1863. 

Henry  R.,  born  in  Harford  County,  Maryland, 
August  1 2th,  1864;  he  is  in  the  wholesale 
grocery  business,  Philadelphia. 

5th  Gen. —  John,  son  of  Peter  and  brother  of 
my  grandfather  William,  born  in  Chester  County, 
and  had  five  children  (6th  Gen.),  John,  Mary, 
Isaac,  Peter  and  Hannah.  Am  sorry  can  get  no 
account  of  any  of  them. 

5th  Gen. — Levi  Bull  Trego,  brother  of  John 
and  son  of  Peter,  born  in  Chester  County,  Penn¬ 
sylvania,  November  28th,  1815.  When  quite 
young  he  removed  to  Huntingdon  County,  Penn¬ 
sylvania,  where  he  married  Mary  J.  Wilson,  of 
Chester  County,  February  2d,  1843.  She  was 
born  January  25th,  1822.  He  died  of  paralysis, 
October  26th,  1880,  leaving  a  family  of  a  wife 
and  nine  children.  He  enlisted  over  age,  and 
served  two  years  and  six  months  in  the  late  war. 
In  early  life  he  worked  at  his  trade  as  stone¬ 
mason,  until  he  saved  money  enough  to  pur¬ 
chase  a  196  acre  farm,  near  McCoysville,  Juniata 
County,  Pennsylvania,  upon  which  he  spent  the 
remainder  of  his  days  as  a  general  agriculturist. 


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Of  his  fifteen  brothers  and  sisters,  only  one  is 
yet  living,  Davis,  unmarried,  and  living  in  Honey- 
brook,  Chester  County,  Pennsylvania. 

6th  Gen. — He  had  nine  children:  Christiann, 
Robert  K.,  Mary  E.,  John  W.,  Margaretta  L., 
Solomon  H.,  Levi  L.,  Matilda  J.  and  Charles  L. 

Children  of  Levi  B.  and  Mary  Wilson  Trego. 
(Lrom  Lamily  Records). 

6th  Gen. — Christiann,  born  nth  mo.,  8th,  1843. 

Robert  Kurtz,  born  5th  mo.,  9th,  1845. 

Mary  Elizabeth,  born  9th  mo.,  15th,  1847. 

John  Wilson,  born  9th  nro.,  10th,  1849. 

Margaretta  Lee  Emma,  born  8th  mo.,  nth, 
1851. 

Solomon  Hertzler,  born  nth  mo.,  24th,  1853. 

Levi  Latimer,  born  1st  mo.,  23d,  1856. 

Matilda  Jane,  born  nth  mo.,  15th,  1879. 

Charles  Laird,  born  2d  mo.,  13th,  1863. 

They  were  all  born  in  Juniata  County,  Penn¬ 
sylvania. 

Christiann,  eldest  child  of  Levi  B.  and  Mary  W. 
Trego,  born  November  8th,  1843.  After  finish¬ 
ing  her  education,  she  became  a  teacher  in  the 
county  schools,  and  resigned  her  position  to 
marry  Christian  R.  Richards,  which  was  cele¬ 
brated  March  29th,  1866,  by  the  Rev.  J.  J.  Ham- 


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ilton.  He  is  employed  on  the  railroad,  and  lives 
near  Eshcol,  Perry  County,  Pennsylvania.  Have 
seven  children:  Charles,  Carrie, Banles,  Howard, 
Dora,  Mary  and  William. 

Robert  Kurtz,  born  May  9th,  1845  >  married 
Milda  Manda  Sheaffer,  February  17th,  1874,  by 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Frazier.  He  is  a  bricklayer  by 
occupation,  as  well  as  a  teacher  in  the  public 
schools  and  agriculturist,  and  lives  near  Lloyds- 
ville,  Perry  County,  Pennsylvania.  Have  three 
children  :  Henry,  Arthur  and  Ira. 

Mary  Elizabeth,  born  September  15th,  1847. 
She  belongs  to  that  class  known  as  spinsters, 
and  was  left  an  ample  fortune  to  sustain  the 
dignity  of  her  station  by  a  childless  uncle  and 
aunt,  Solomon  and  Mary  Hertzler. 

John  Wilson,  born  September  10th,  1849; 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
Sullivan,  in  Bellevue,  Huron  County,  Ohio, 
July  4th,  1872,  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Wallace.  He 
keeps  a  tinsmith  and  hardware  store  in  Mifflin, 
Juniata  County,  Pennsylvania.  They  had  four 
children  :  living,  Ida,  Emma  Clara,  and  Brooks; 
one  dead,  named  Carrie. 

Margaretta  Lee  Emma,  born  August  1  ith, 
1851.  After  graduating  at  Millersville,  Lancas- 


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ter  County,  Pennsylvania,  she  was  appointed  as 
a  teacher  in  the  public  schools.  She  died  June 
15th,  1880. 

Solomon  Hertzler,  born  November  24th,  1853; 
graduated  at  Millersville  College.  Taught  school 
a  few  years,  and  is  now  practicing  law  in  Quincy, 
Illinois. 

Levi  Latimer,  born  January  23d,  1856,  and 
now  carries  on  the  business  of  tinsmith,  in  Eshcol, 
Perry  County,  Pennsylvania.  Unmarried. 

Matilda  Jane,  born  November  15th,  1859; 
married  December  25th,  1879,  by  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Wallen,  Peter  J.  Trego,  son  of  John  and  grand¬ 
son  of  Peter,  of  Berwyn,  Chester  County,  Penn¬ 
sylvania.  He  carries  on  the  business  of  tinsmith. 

Charles  Laird,  born  February  13th,  1863. 

5th  Gen. — Mary,  daughter  of  Peter,  and  sister 
of  Levi  B.,  married  Solomon  Hertzler.  She 
died  July  2d,  1878,  and  he  March  2d,  1880. 
They  had  no  children.  Lizzie  M.  Trego,  her 
niece,  daughter  of  her  brother  Levi  B.,  became 
their  heir,  and  among  other  things  was  left  a  set 
of  silver  spoons  that  had  been  handed  down  six 
generations  on  her  grandmother’s  side,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Jenkins. 

David,  son  of  Peter  and  brother  of  the  above 
ones — have  no  record  of  him. 


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4th  Gen. — Reuben,  born  in  Chester  County, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1763,  was  a  son  of  William, 
born  1726;  had  eight  children  (5thGen.),  Hannah, 
Cyrus,  Jacob,  Emmor,  Mary,  Jesse,  Ameon  and 
William.  Have  no  history  of  them. 

4th  Gen. — Jacob,  born  in  Chester  County,  Pa., 
1767,  brother  of  Reuben.  Had  nine  children 
(5th  Gen.),  Caleb,  James,  Isaac,  Mary,  Evan, 
William,  Rachel,  Jacob  and  Edith. 

James,  son  of  Jacob,  had  five  children  :  Wil¬ 
liam,  Grace,  Elbe,  Nathan  and  Reuben.  This 
last  William  had  three:  Frank,  Horace  and 
Mania. 

Isaac,  son  of  Jacob,  had  four  children  :  Re¬ 
becca,  Eddelto,  Mary,  and  one  other. 

Evan,  son  of  Jacob,  had  two  daughters:  Sal- 
lie  and  Adeline,  supposed  to  be  living  in  Juniata 
County,  Pa. 

William,  son  of  Jacob,  had  three  children  : 
Rebecca,  Henry  and  Sarah.  [I  regret  that  I 
can  give  no  fuller  account  of  the  family.] 

4th  Gen.— Isaac,  born  in  Chester  County, 
1759;  died  there  1804;  a  son  of  William,  and 
brother  of  Jacob,  Reuben,  Peter,  and  Hannah 
Clemson.  Isaac  had  nine  children  (5th  Gen.), 
Mary,  Ruth  Ann  (she  never  married,  and  lived 


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for  many  years  at  Kennett  Square,  Chester  Coun¬ 
ty),  Anna,  Rebecca,  Abner,  Rachel  (she  married 
a  Mr.  Reel  and  had  six  children  :  Wesley,  Isaac, 
Clementine,  Samson,  Fannie  and  James  Reel); 
David,  Peter  and  Lloyd. 

The  above  completes  all  the  information  I  could 
get  of  William,  son  of  Peter  Trego,  Sr.,  and  his 
descendants,  except  his  son  Joseph,  whose  de¬ 
scendants  comprise  the  third  part  of  this  history. 


THIRD  PART. 


Joseph,  born  1732,  died  1806;  son  of  Wil¬ 
liam,  born  1693,  grandson  of  Peter  Trego,  Sr. 

Historical  Letter. 

Philadelphia,  Feb.  25th,  1882. 

A.  Trego  Shertzer,  M.  D. 

Dear  Sir :  I  received  a  postal  from  you,  dated 
February  22d,  1882,  requesting  me  to  send  you 
the  names  of  father,  grandfather,  and  names,  &c., 
of  other  relatives.  I  will  do  so,  as  far  as  I  can, 
with  pleasure.  Unfortunately  I  am  not  in  pos¬ 
session  of  any  of  the  old  records,  consequently, 
my  information  to  you,  I  fear,  will  be  of  small 
account. 

My  great-grandfather’s  name  was  Joseph  Tre¬ 
go.  He  was  an  old  man  at  the  time  of  the 
Revolution.  He  lived  on  a  two  hundred  and 
forty  acre  farm  in  Honeybrook  Township,  Ches¬ 
ter  County,  Pa.,  that  he  purchased  when  it  was 
all  under  timber.  He  owned  several  other  tracts, 


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all  in  the  same  township.  His  children’s  names 
were  (as  far  as  I  know),  William,  Eli,  Joseph,  Jere¬ 
miah,  Absalom,  Margaret,  another  daughter, 
name  to  me  unknown.  William  was  my  grand¬ 
father.  He  was  a  volunteer  rifleman  in  the  Revo¬ 
lution  from  three  to  five  years.  His  wife’s  first 
name  was  Betty  or  Betsey  ;  do  not  know  who  the 
others  married,  except  Absalom,  he  married 
Hannah  Lewis,  of  Delaware  County,  Pa.  Mar¬ 
garet  married  Israel  Irwin;  her  sister  married 
Evan  Lewis,  brother  to  Absalom’s  wife.  Wil¬ 
liam’s  children’s  names  were  as  follows  :  John, 
Daniel,  Joseph,  Vincent,  Thomas,  Hannah, 
Orphia,  Alice  and  Elizabeth.  John  and  Daniel 
emigrated  to  Ohio  some  fifty  years  ago.  Both 
raised  families.  John’s  are  all  dead  but  one, 
name  now  is  Mary  Middleton,  of  Alliance,  Ohio. 
Some  of  Daniel’s  are  living,  he  had  three  sons 
in  the  Rebellion.  Joseph  raised  a  family,  Wil¬ 
liam,  Isaac,  Abner,  Daniel,  Elizabeth  and  Ann. 
Thomas  is  the  only  one  living  now,  he  had  a 
family,  but  they  are  all  dead.  Elis  address  is 
Green  P.  O.,  Lancaster  County,  Pa.  Vincent 
was  my  father,  he  has  been  dead  about  thirty-six 
years,  was  over  forty- eight  years  old.  Mother’s 
name  was  Lydia  Lewis,  sister  to  the  two  others 


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spoken  of ;  she  died  thirty-eight  years  ago,  aged 
fifty  eight  years.  So  you  see  my  father  and  my 
great-uncle,  Absalom,  married  sisters,  which 
mixed  relationship  wonderfully.  Hannah  married 
Thomas  Sloan,  who  lived  long,  and  died  near 
Newark,  Delaware.  They  raised  several  girls, 
one  of  them,  now  Mrs.  Mary  Smith,  lives  at  22d 
and  Pine  streets,  Philadelphia ;  she  might  give  you 
some  information.  Orphia  married  Samuel  Wil¬ 
son,  they  have  four  children  living :  Absalom, 
Isaiah,  Mary  and  Alice  ;  the  three  first  have  the 
same  address,  Suplee,  Chester  County,  Pennsyl¬ 
vania.  Alice  married  Daniel  Pyle,  they  had 
four  children:  Bewregett,  Joseph,  Taylor  and 
Alexander;  address  the  three  former  at  Green, 
Lancaster  County,  Pennsylvania.  Elizabeth  was 
married  twice,  first  to  a  Mr.  Terrell ;  children’s 
names :  William,  Isaac,  and  Daniel  Gilpin  Terrell ; 
address  Isaac,  at  Green,  Lancaster  County,  Pa. 
Her  second  husband,  Thomas  Stubbs;  children  : 
Cooper,  Edward  and  John ;  address  Cooper, 
care  of  Isaac  Terrell,  Green,  Lancaster  County, 
Pa.  Eli  had  sons  and  daughters,  Joseph,  Eli, 
Maria,  Matilda,  and  probably  others.  Joseph 
had  three  sons,  that  I  know,  Eli,  James  and  Wil¬ 
liam.  Eli’s  address  is  Isabella,  Chester  County, 


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Pa.,  James  at  Cupola,  Chester  County,  Pa.,  and 
William,  at  Brandywine  Manor,  Chester  County, 
Pa.  Absalom  had  five  children,  as  follows: 
James,  Evan,  Joseph,  Agnes  and  Alice;  all  are 
dead  but  Alice.  This  last  Joseph’s  widow  is  liv¬ 
ing  at  Suplee,  Chester  County,  Pa.  She  is  the 
most  likely  one  to  have  the  old  records,  as  old 
Absalom  remained  on  the  old  homestead  from 
birth  until  death  removed  him.  Joseph  (his  son), 
and  Margaret,  Joseph’s  wife,  remaining  with 
him.  (I  should  have  given  you  her  name  on  the 
preceding  page.)  Lewis  Frescoln,  a  grandson 
of  old  Absalom,  and  son  of  Agnes,  would  be 
likely  to  have  an  old  record  ;  address  Isabella, 
Chester  County,  Pa.  Margaret,  Absalom’s  sister, 
married  one  Israel  Irwin,  had  sons  and  daughters; 
names,  Israel,  Joseph,  Jared,  Hannah,  Margaret, 
and  one  daughter  went  to  Illinois,  cannot  remem¬ 
ber  her  name;  she  married  one  John  Ash,  they 
raised  a  large  family  in  Alton,  Illinois.  Jared 
also  went  to  Illinois,  has  a  fine  family.  I  am  told 
his  son  Cooper  Irwin,  is  or  was  Mayor  of  Spring- 
field,  Ills.  Joseph  Irwin  has  one  son  living 
above  Philadelphia,  on  the  Schuylkill  river,  he 
is  an  educated  man.  I  do  not  know  his  address, 
but  could  get  it. 


Hannah  is  my  stepmother,  lives  in  Honey- 
brook,  Chester  County,  Pa.  She  is  87  years 
old,  and  very  intelligent.  I  expect  she  remem¬ 
bers  much  about  the  old  stock.  Her  name  is 
now  Hannah  Trego,  as  she  was  my  father’s 
second  wife,  and  now  his  widow  ;  Honeybrook 
is  her  address.  I  will  give  you  the  address  of  a 
few  more.  William  Trego,  Cupola,  Chester, 
Pa.;  again,  William  Trego,  Honeybrook,  Chester 
County,  Pa. ;  Isaac  Trego,  near  Brooklin,  Down- 
ingtown,  Chester  County,  Pa.;  Isaac  Trego,  Guth- 
reyville,  Chester  County,  Pa.;  Daniel  Trego, 
Honeybrook,  Chester  County,  Pa.  Vincent 
Trego  (my  father),  had  four  children  by  his  first 
wife  (none  by  the  second),  names  as  follows  : 
Lewis,  Thomas,  Alice  Ann  and  Harris,  all  are 
deceased  but  Harris,  the  writer  of  this.  Lewis 
was  sixty,  Alice  Ann  about  forty-five,  and  Thomas 
six  months.  I  was  born  in  Chester  County, 
Honeybrook  Township,  on  the  7th  day  of  Feb¬ 
ruary,  1831  ;  married  Anna  May  Hines,  March 
6th,  1858;  her  father’s  people  were  natives  of 
Maryland,  has  an  uncle  Edward  Hines,  south  of 
Baltimore.  We  have  four  children,  named  as 
follows:  Hibbard  Rambo,  born  February  14th, 
1859;  Ella, born  March  18th,  i860;  Thomas  Har- 


ris,  born  February  24th,  1870;  Frank,  born  June 
24th,  1876.  I  think  it  is  most  likely  that  the 
Tregos  first  settled  in  Bucks  County.  There  are 
many  of  them  there.  I  think  they  landed  about 
1686  or  ’7-  I  have  been  at  Newtown,  Bucks 
County,  twenty-six  miles  from  Philadelphia,  on 
the  Newtown  Railroad  ;  there  are  some  in  that 
place,  and  I  have  heard  of  many  through  the 
County.  Doylestown  is  the  county  seat  of 
Bucks  County;  and  West  Chester,  of  Chester 
County.  By  searching  the  records  at  the  county 
seats  could  there  not  be  much  information  got 
in  regard  to  the  first  settlers  and  landowners 
by  the  name  of  Trego? 

There  are  Tregos  in  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania, 
also  some  in  Montgomery  and  Berks  County. 
My  brother,  Lewis,  married  Elizabeth  Stauffer; 
they  have  children  living ;  the  mother  is  still 
living.  They  have  one  son  in  Iowa,  George 
Washington  Trego,  aged  about  thirty-five  years ; 
the  others  live  in  Chester  County,  Pennsylvania ; 
their  names  are  Vincent,  Allen,  Mark,  Agnes 
and  Susan.  My  sister,  Alice  Ann,  has  children 
living  ;  their  names  are  Harris  (a  printer  in  Wil¬ 
mington),  Thomas,  Jacob,  Clara  and  Eva ;  all  in 


Philadelphia ;  her  husband,  Kellom  Rambo,  is 
living. 

Yours  truly, 

Harris  Trego, 

354  N.  31st  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


3d  Gen. — Joseph,  born  in  Chester  County, 
Pennsylvania,  1732;  died  October  29th,  1806; 
son  of  William,  born  1693;  died  1770,  and 
grandson  of  Peter,  the  first.  Owned  and  lived 
on  a  two  hundred  and  forty  acre  farm,  in  Honey- 
brook  Township,  Chester  County,  Pennsylvania, 
that  he  purchased  when  it  was  all  under  timber. 
He  owned  several  other  tracts  of  land,  all  in  the 
same  township.  He  had  seven  children,  five 
sons  and  two  daughters  (4th  Gen.),  Hannah, 
Jeremiah,  William,  Absalom,  Moses,  Eli,  and 
one  daughter  ;  name  unknown. 

Moses,  eldest  child  of  Joseph,  was  born,  as  were 
all  the  others,  in  Honeybrook  township,  in  1750; 
he  died  in  1791.  He  had  fivechildren  (5th  Gen.), 
Rebecca,  who  married  a  Mr.  Spangler,  John, 
Eli,  Joseph,  and  Mary,  who  married  a  Mr.  Mc- 
Keehan. 

John  had  five  children  (6th  Gen.),  Levi,  sup- 


posed  to  have  lived  and  died  in  Cumberland  city, 
Maryland,  Jacob,  Hannah,  Rebecca  and  Matilda, 
who  married  a  Mr.  Shannon. 

5th  Gen. — Eli  had  five  children,  Edith,  Wil¬ 
liam,  Kerlin,  John  and  Eli.  Edith  married  a 
Mr.  Leib. 

William,  son  of  Eli,  born  in  1815,  has  one 
child,  a  daughter. 

Mary,  born  in  1841,  married  to  a  Dr.  Mc- 
Kenny,  and  now  resides  near  Frederick,  Mary¬ 
land;  she  has  a  son,  Willie. 

Children  of  Joseph  Trego,  born  1732;  died 
October  29th,  1806. 

Moses,  born  1750;  died  1791. 

William,  born  1754;  died  1814. 

Eli,  born  1766;  died  1825. 

Margaret,  born  1 767 ;  died - ;  married  Jared 

P.  Irwin. 

Jeremiah,  born  1771  ;  died  1830. 

Absalom,  born  1776;  married  Hannah  Lewis. 

Hannah,  born  1795  ;  still  living  in  Chester 
County. 

William,  son  of  Eli,  grandson  of  Moses,  for 
many  years  owned  and  manufactured  pig  iron  in 
the  northern  part  of  Pennsylvania.  Some  twenty 
years  ago  removed  to  Baltimore,  Maryland, 


where  he  owned  a  large  iron  works  at  the  south¬ 
west  corner  of  Eden  street  and  Canton  avenue, 
together  with  Mr.  Peter  Thompson,  the  firm 
name  being  Trego  and  Thompson.  In  1878  he 
retired  from  business,  and  bought  a  farm  two 
miles  west  of  Frederick  City,  Maryland,  where 
he  and  his  wife  still  reside,  together  with  their 
daughter  and  son-in-law,  Dr.  McKenny. 

6th  Gen. — Kerlin,  son  of  Eli,  and  grandson 
of  Moses,  had  four  children,  Marion  and  three 
others.  No  record. 

John,  brother  of  Kerlin,  was  born  1808;  died 
1862.  No  record. 

Eli,  brother  of  John,  and  son  of  Eli,  is  still 
living;  has  a  grandson,  B.  F.  Trego,  living  at 
Akron,  Lancaster  County,  Pennsylvania.  No 
record. 

5th  Gen. — John,  son  of  Moses,  had  five  child¬ 
ren,  Matilda  Shannon,  Rebecca,  Hannah,  Jacob, 
and  Levi,  who  removed  to  Cumberland  city. 
No  record. 

Joseph,  son  of  Moses,  had  three  children,  Dallis, 
Cornog,  Mary  E.  (she  married  a  Mr.  Warey), 
and  Rachel,  who  married  a  Mr.  Lang,  of  Pitts¬ 
burg,  Pennsylvania. 

Mary,  a  sister  of  Joseph,  married  a  Mr.  Mc- 
Kehan. 


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4th  Gen. — Absalom,  born  in  Honeybrook 
township,  in  1776,  brother  of  Moses,  and  son  of 
Joseph,  married  Hannah  Lewis,  of  Delaware 
County,  Pennsylvania.  They  had  five  children 
(5th  Gen.),  Joseph,  Evan,  James,  Alice  and 
Agnes.  No  record. 

4th  Gen. — William,  son  of  Joseph,  born  1754; 
died  1814;  brother  of  Absalom  (his  wife’s  first 
name  was  Betty  or  Betsy).  He  was  a  volunteer 
rifleman  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  from  three 
to  five  years.  They  had  nine  children(  5th  Gen.), 
Vincent,  Joseph,  John,  Orphia,  Daniel,  Thomas, 
Alice,  Hannah  and  Elizabeth. 

Vincent,  born  near  Honeybrook,  Chester 
County,  Pennsylvania,  1798;  died  1841.  He 
married  Lydia  Lewis,  sister  of  the  wife  of 
Absalom  Trego.  She  was  born  in  1786,  and 
died  1844.  A  second  sister  of  Lydia  married 
Evan  Lewis  (6th  Gen.).  They  had  four  children, 
Harris,  Alice  A.,  Thomas  and  Lewis. 

6th  Gen. — Harris,  son  of  Vincent,  born  in  1831, 
is  a  merchant,  and  lives  at  354  N.  31st  street, 
Philadelphia.  He  has  four  children  (7th  Gen.), 
Frank  P.,  born  1876;  Thomas  H.,  born  1870; 
Ella  P.,  born  i860,  and  Hibberd  R.,  born  1859. 

6th  Gen. — Thomas  and  Alice,  brother  and 


sister  of  Harris ;  have  no  children.  Their 
brother,  Lewis,  has  six  children  (7th  Gen.), 
Agnes,  George  W.  (born  1847),  Vincent,  Allen, 
Mark  and  Susan. 

5th  Gen.— Joseph,  brother  of  Vincent,  and  son 
of  William,  had  six  children  (6th  Gen.),  Isaac, 
William,  Abner,  Daniel,  Elizabeth  and  Ann. 

5th  Gen. — John,  brother  of  Vincent,  son  of 
William  and  Betty  Trego,  was  born  in  Honey- 
brook  township,  Chester  County,  Pennsylvania, 
January  17th,  1784.  He  married  Mary,  daughter 
of  John  and  Elizabeth  Cook,  of  Chester  County, 
Pennsylvania.,  November  18th,  1807.  She  was 
born  September  13th,  1778,  and  died  Janu¬ 
ary  17th,  1864,  aged  76  years,  8  months  and  13 
days.  She  was  a  faithful  wife,  patient  under 
every  difficulty — a  loving  and  affectionate  mother, 
and  an  exemplary  Christian.  She  as  well  as  her 
family  were  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 
They  had  eight  children  (6th  Gen.),  Hannah  C., 
Isaac  C.,  Betty,  Elizabeth  C.,  John,  Sarah  C., 
Vincent  and  Mary. 

Hannah  C.  was  born  in  Chester  County,  Penn¬ 
sylvania,  December  16th,  1808,  and  died  un¬ 
married,  July  10th,  1831.  She  was  a  young 
woman  of  more  than  ordinary  talent,  and  was 


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beloved  by  all  who  knew  her  for  her  amiable  dis¬ 
position  and  virtuous  qualities. 

Isaac  C.  was  born  January  30th,  1810,  and 
died  unmarried,  J uly  2d,  1 833.  He  was  a  young 
man  of  unusual  piety  and,  like  his  sister,  was 
greatly  beloved. 

Betty  was  born  January  27th,  1811,  and  died 
March  21st,  1812. 

Elizabeth  C.  was  born  February  2d,  1813,  and 
died  March  5th,  1813. 

John  was  born  May  14th,  1814;  died  June 
26th,  1859.  When  about  twenty-one  years  of 
age  he  had  an  attack  of  scarlet  fever,  which 
prostrated  him  for  several  months  and  so  shat¬ 
tered  his  constitution  that  he  never  recovered 
good  health ;  at  that  time  he  promised  his 
Heavenly  Father  if  his  life  was  spared  he  would 
devote  it  to  his  service.  He  lived  a  practical 
consistent  Christian  life,  and  died  with  the  peace¬ 
ful  assurance  that  his  life  was  approved  of  the 
Master.  He  was  a  minister  in  the  Society  of 
Friends  for  several  years  before  his  death.  He 
married  Sarah  Ann  Harlan,  August  22d,  1839. 
They  had  two  children  (7th  Gen.),  Hannah  A., 
born  May  2d,  1843;  she  was  married  to  Hiram 
Platt,  of  New  Brighton,  Beaver  County,  Penn- 


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sylvania,  November  2d,  1865,  where  they  now 
reside,  having  removed  from  Salem,  Ohio,  in  the 
spring  of  1866.  They  have  had  three  children, 
(8th  Gen.),  Percival  T.,  born  August  4th,  1866; 
Arthur  Vincent,  born  July  12th,  1874;  Raymond, 
born  September  7th,  1881  ;  died  October  27th, 
1882. 

7th  Gen. — Sarah  E.,  second  child  of  John,  Jr., 
and  Sarah  A.,  was  born  July  27th,  1846;  married 
Joseph  R.  Mitchell,  of  Howard  County,  Mary¬ 
land,  May  1st,  1872.  They  remained  in  Salem, 
Ohio,  two  years,  then  moved  to  San  Francisco, 
California,  where  they  now  reside.  They  have 
one  child  (8th  Gen.),  Mabel  Eloise  Mitchell, 
born  April  20th,  1878. 

6th  Gen. — Sarah  C.,  daughter  John,  Sr.  and 
Mary  Trego,  was  born  in  Honeybrook  township, 
Chester  County,  Pa.,  February  25th,  1817;  married 
John  W.  Satterthwait,  February  25th,  1836;  she 
died  February  10th,  1849.  They  had  two  children  : 
Hannah,  born  1837,  and  George,  born  March  3d, 
1842.  George  has  four  children,  am  unable  to 
give  their  names,  &c.  He  resides  in  Urbana, 
Champaign  County,  Ohio. 

6th  Gen. — Vincent,  brother  of  Sarah  C.,  was 
born  in  Honeybrook  township,  Chester  County, 


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Pa.,  June  1st,  1819;  married  Delila  Burns,  Janu¬ 
ary  23d,  1844.  In  1852  he  removed  from  Ma¬ 
honing  County  to  Carrollton,  Carroll  County, 
Ohio,  and  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine, 
in  which  he  was  very  successful  for  a  number  of 
years.  He  then  lost  his  sight  and  was  blind  for 
two  years,  but  partially  recovered,  then  his 
health  gradually  failed  and  he  died  February 
13th,  1875.  His  wife  died  March  21st,  1877. 
They  had  but  one  child  (7th  Gen.),  Mary  Laura, 
born  in  Mahoning  County,  Ohio,  July  27th,  1847, 
and  died  September  8th,  1879;  she  married 
Dallas  C.  Peirson,  of  Upper  Sandusky,  Ohio, 
November  9th,  1869;  he  died  May  2d,  1878. 
They  had  two  children :  Laura  Naomi  Peirson, 
born  December  31st,  1870;  Charles  Vincent 
Peirson,  born  March  3d,  1878;  died  October  9th, 
1878. 

6th  Gen. — Mary  C.,  daughter  of  John  Trego, 
Sr.,  was  born  in  Honeybrook  township,  Chester 
County,  Pa.,  February  2d,  1822;  married  Charles 
Middleton,  of  Alliance,  Ohio,  where  they  now 
reside,  July  19th,  1849.  He  is  a  Minister  of  the 
Gurney  Branch  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  of 
which  both  are  members. 

In  April,  1824,  John  Trego,  Sr.  (5th  Gen.), 


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removed  with  his  family  from  the  old  homestead 
in  Chester  County,  Pa.,  to  Smith  township, 
Columbiana  County,  now  Mahoning  County, 
Ohio,  at  that  time  almost  a  perfect  wilderness, 
which  was  infested  with  wild  animals  of  various 
kinds,  as  well  as  Indians,  both  of  which  had  a 
safe  refuge  in  the  dense  surrounding  forest. 

The  family  endured  many  privations  and  hard¬ 
ships  incident  to  a  life  in  a  new  country,  but  as 
for  the  younger  members,  these  only  served  to 
school  them  in  habits  of  industry  and  energy, 
and  under  the  guidance  and  counsel  of  a  wise 
Christian  mother,  they  formed  characters  of  firm 
integrity  from  which  they  never  wavered.  Their 
father  never  belonged  to  any  religious  society, 
notwithstanding  his  family,  as  well  as  the  entire 
Trego  family  up  to  this  time,  belonged  to  the 
Society  of  Friends.  The  mother  and  most  of 
the  children  belonged  to  the  Society  of  Friends. 
Their  son,  Vincent,  when  young  joined  the 
Baptists,  but  after  the  family  of  John  Trego 
moved  to  Carrollton,  they  joined  the  Presby¬ 
terians,  which  was  the  only  religious  denomina¬ 
tion  in  that  section  of  the  country.  Some  of  the 
members  of  the  family  have  since  re-united 
themselves  with  the  Friends. 


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5th  Gen. — Orphia,  daughter  of  William  and 
sister  of  John,  married  Samuel  Wilson.  They 
have  four  children  living  (6th  Gen.),  Absalom, 
Isaiah,  Mary  and  Alice ;  the  three  first  live  at 
Suplee,  Chester  County,  Pa. 

5th  Gen. — Alice,  sister  of  Orphia,  married 
Daniel  Pyle,  they  had  four  children  (6th  Gen.), 
Bewregett,  Joseph,  Taylor  and  Alexander;  the 
three  first  live  at  Green,  Lancaster  County,  Pa. 

5th  Gen. — Daniel  Trego,  son  of  William,  and 
grandson  of  Joseph,  was  born  in  Honeybrook 
township,  Chester  County,  Pennsylvania,  May 
8th,  1796;  he  married  Sarah  Waters,  December 
26th,  1826;  she  was  born  January  1st,  1806. 
Soon  after  their  marriage  they  settled  in  Honey- 
brook  township,  and  there  he  was  engaged  for 
five  years  running  a  grist  and  saw  mill.  In  1831 
he  sold  his  property  in  Chester  County  and  re¬ 
moved  to  Columbiana  County,  now  Mahoning 
County,  Ohio,  where  he  bought  a  farm,  and  was 
engaged  in  farming  until  the  spring  of  1838, 
when  they  sold  their  farm,  and  moved  to  Rich¬ 
land,  now  Crawford  County,  Ohio,  where  they 
bought  a  farm  and  resided  there  until  called  to 
their  eternal  home.  His  wife  died  May  22d, 
1871,  and  he  died  January  2d,  1876. 


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6th  Gen. — Daniel  Trego  had  ten  children  : 

Samuel  Waters  Trego,  born  November  3d, 
1827-. 

Ann  Elizabeth  Trego,  born  September  21st, 
1829. 

Elmira  Trego,  born  February  I2fch,  1831. 

Agnes  Trego,  born  November  2ist,  1833. 

Francis  Marion  Trego,  born  December  17th, 
1835. 

Vincent  T.  Trego,  born  February  28th,  1838. 

John  Harrison  Trego,  born  May  31st,  1840. 

Alice  Ann  Trego,  born  July  14th,  1843. 

Mary  Trego,  born  April  22d,  1846. 

Morris  Winfield  Trego,  born  January  24th, 
1848. 

Samuel  W.,  son  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  Trego, 
born  in  Honeybrook  township,  Chester  County, 
Pennsylvania,  November  3d,  1827;  he  was  in 
his  fourth  year  when  his  father  removed  to  the 
Richland  County  farm,  which  at  that  time  was  a 
wild  uncultivated  County,  and  no  road  within 
half  a  mile  of  the  farm ;  he  assisted  in  clearing 
the  land,  and  getting  it  ready  for  the  plow,  which 
was  finally  accomplished  ;  and  here,  after  years 
of  toil,  Daniel  Trego  raised  a  large  family. 
Samuel  W.,  tiring  of  a  backwoods  life,  re- 


solved  to  see  more  of  the  world  (in  the  spring  of 
1852  the  California  gold  fever  having  broke  out). 
On  the  15th  day  of  March,  he,  in  company 'with 
Gilbert  Newel,  of  the  same  neighborhood,  started 
in  a  two-horse  wagon  for  the  land  of  gold.  In 
Cincinnati  they  were  joined  by  Eugene  Page  and 
wife;  she  being  a  sister  of  Newel’s.  At  this  point 
they  took  the  steamer  for  St.  Joe,  on  the  Missouri 
River,  this  at  that  time  being  the  frontier  of  the 
Western  country.  On  the  5th  of  May  they 
started  on  their  long  journey  through  the 
western  wilds.  In  their  travels  they  frequently 
fell  in  with  parties  going  the  same  way  and  with 
the  same  object  in  view.  They  arrived  safely  in 
California  on  the  15th  of  September,  after  a 
journey  of  six  months.  He  remained  in  Cali¬ 
fornia  until  January  5th,  1859,  when  he  started 
for  his  home  in  Ohio,  arriving  there,  nearly 
penniless,  July  3d,  1859. 

Shortly  after  his  return  home,  he  married 
Amelia  Howe,  September  4th,  1859.  the 
spring  of  1850  he  bought  a  farm  in  Auburn 
township,  Crawford  County,  Ohio,  where  he  still 
resides.  He  has  five  children :  Alta  M.  Trego, 
born  August  24th,  i860;  Ulysses  C.,  born  April 
nth,  1862;  died  March  15th,  1881  ;  Eunice  L., 


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born  March  12th,  1867  ;  Alonzo  M.,  born  Janu¬ 
ary  15th,  1869;  Corbie  S.,  born  January  9th, 
1872  ;  died  September  27th,  1872.  His  wife, 
Amelia,  having  died  September  27th,  1872,  upon 
the  same  day  of  his  son,  Corbie  S.,  he  married 
for  his  second  wife,  Mary  E.  Elser,  October  29th, 
1874.  She  has  been  a  confirmed  invalid  since 
1879.  On  the  7th  of  November,  1862,  Samuel  W. 
Trego  enlisted  in  the  64th  Regiment,  Company 
H,  Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry ;  took  an  active 
part  in  the  battle  of  Chicamauga,  as  his  first 
lesson  in  the  art  of  war,  and  shortly  afterwards 
in  the  battles  near  Chattanooga.  On  the  first  of 
May,  1864,  he  with  his  regiment  was  ordered  in 
the  Atlanta  campaign.  On  the  18th  of  June, 
1864,  was  wounded  in  the  left  thigh  by  a  musket 
ball,  in  the  battle  at  Kenesaw  Mountain,  Georgia. 
This  was  his  last  active  duty  ;  during  the  remain¬ 
der  of  the  war  was  detailed  for  guard  duty  over 
Confederate  prisoners,  on  Johnson’s  Island, 
opposite  Sandusky,  Ohio.  After  having  served 
three  years,  he  was  mustered  out  at  Camp  Chase, 
Ohio,  November  7th,  1865.  For  the  wounds  he 
received  while  in  the  army  he  is  a  life  pensioner, 
and  will  receive  quarterly  dues  while  our  great 
government  lasts,  held  together  by  the  sighs  and 


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tears,  and  the  maimed  of  the  many  thousands 
wounded  during  the  late  war. 

6th  Gen. — Ann  Elizabeth,  second  child  of 
Daniel  and  Sarah  Trego,  born  September  2 1st, 
1829;  died  February  21st,  1841;  unmarried. 
Elmira,  their  third  child  was  born  February  12th, 
1831  ;  she  was  married  to  John  Griffith,  Decem¬ 
ber  28th,  1852.  They  have  four  children  :  Milton 
W.,  born  December  19th,  1853;  Sarah  A.,  born 
February  2d,  1856;  Orrissa  T.,  born  April  9th, 
i860,  and  John  Howard  Griffith,  born  May  5th, 
1867.  Daniel  Trego’s  fourth  child,  Agnes,  born 
in  Smith  township,  Columbiana  County,  Ohio, 
November  21st,  1833;  died  January  27th,  1854; 
unmarried.  Their  fifth  child,  Francis  Marion, 
was  born  in  Smith  township,  Columbiana  County, 
Ohio,  December  17th,  1835,  never  married. 
When  the  war  broke  out  he  enlisted  as  a  private 
in  the  64th  Regiment,  Company  H,  Ohio  Vol¬ 
unteer  Infantry.  He  was  a  good  and  faithful 
soldier,  and  when  his  first  term  of  enlistment 
expired,  in  1863,  he  immediately  reenlisted  for 
three  years  more.  During  his  service  in  the 
army  he  never  received  a  rank  higher  than 
Orderly  Sergeant.  On  the  20th  of  July,  1864, 
in  the  vicinity  of  Peach  Tree  Creek,  near  Atlanta, 


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Georgia,  while  on  the  skirmish  line  in  front  of  the 
Confederate  lines,  he  was  shot  through  the  head 
and  was  killed  instantly.  He  was  a  consistent 
member  of  the  Methodist  Church.  Daniel 
Trego’s  sixth  child,  Vincent  T.,  was  born  in 
Smith  township,  Columbiana  County,  Ohio,  Feb¬ 
ruary  28th,  1838;  he  was  five  weeks  old  when  the 
family  moved  to  Richland  County,  same  State. 
He  grew  to  be  a  sprightly  boy,  always  full  of  fun 
and  oddities.  When  about  sixteen  years  old 
he  would  wear  his  hair  long,  and  go  to  fairs,  and 
personate  Indians.  In  1861  (when  the  war  broke 
out),  on  the  7th  day  of  September,  he  volun¬ 
teered  in  the  15th  Regiment,  Company  I,  Ohio 
Volunteer  Infantry,  and  served  over  four  years 
in  the  service.  He  enlisted  a  second  time  in  the 
fall  of  1863  as  a  veteran.  When  discharged  from 
the  service  in  the  fall  of  1865,  was  1st  Lieutenant 
of  the  above  regiment.  After  leaving  the  army, 
took  charge  of  the  home  farm,  providing  for  his 
aged  father  and  mother  to  the  time  of  their 
death.  He  was  a  very  hard  worker,  exposing 
himself  to  all  kinds  of  weather — frequently  run¬ 
ning  a  large  sugar  camp  alone  ;  he  contracted  a 
heavy  cold  which  settled  upon  his  lungs,  in  the 
summer  of  1879,  and  he  died  from  consumption, 


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April  14th,  1880.  He  was  the  only  member  of 
the  family  of  Daniel  Trego  that  ever  had  this 
much-dreaded  disease.  He  married  for  his  first 
wife,  Laura  Carlisle,  December  25th,  1866;  she 

died - ;  for  his  second  wife,  he  married  Mary 

E.  Dull,  May  5th,  1870;  by  his  last  wife  he  had 
three  children  :  Marion  Winfield  Trego,  born 
April  9th,  1872  ;  Henry  Dull,  born  August  9th, 
1875,  and  Maud  Augusta,  born  November  8th, 
1880. 

John  Harrison  Trego,  seventh  child  of  Daniel 
Trego,  was  born  May  31st,  1840;  he  lived 
on  the  old  homestead  until  the  fall  of  1866, 
having  married  Nancy  Mount,  October  21st, 
1866.  He  removed  to  a  farm  that  belonged  to 
his  father,  Daniel,  in  Auburn  township,  Craw¬ 
ford  County,  Ohio,  where  he  still  resides.  He  has 
four  children  :  Fannie  Trego,  born  September 
1st,  1867;  Justice,  born  May  23d,  1873;  Andrew 
E.,born  August  1 8th,  1876;  John  H.,  born  July 
9th,  1879. 

Alice  Ann,  eighth  child,  born  July  14th,  1843  > 
died  unmarried,  1852. 

Mary  Trego,  ninth  child  of  Daniel,  was  born 
April  22d,  1846;  she  married  William  Keller, 
April  17th,  1870;  the  same  spring  they  moved 


to  Allen  County,  Indiana,  where  they  now  re¬ 
side,  engaged  in  farming.  They  have  two  chil¬ 
dren  :  Clara  and  Herschel. 

Morris  Winfield,  tenth  and  last  child  of  Daniel 
Trego,  was  born  in  Auburn  township,  Crawford 

County,  Ohio,  January  24th,  1848;  died  - , 

1849. 

5th  Gen. — Thomas,  son  of  William  and  brother 
of  Daniel,  was  born  March  6th,  1804.  Had  four 
sons :  John,  Joseph,  Daniel  and  Vincent ;  they 
are  all  dead.  He  now  resides  in  Goshen,  Ches¬ 
ter  County,  Pa. 

5th  Gen. — Elizabeth,  sister  of  Alice  and 
Orphia,  was  married  twice,  first  to  a  Mr.  Terrell. 
They  had  three  children  :  William,  Isaac  and 
Daniel  Gilpen  Terrell.  Isaac  lives  at  Green, 
Lancaster  County,  Pa. 

For  her  second  husband  she  married  Thomas 
Stubbs.  They  also  had  three  children  :  Cooper, 
Edward  and  John  Stubbs.  John  lives  at  Green, 
Lancaster  County,  Pa. 

5th  Gen.-— Hannah,  sister  of  Elizabeth,  mar¬ 
ried  Thomas  Sloan.  She  lived  to  be  quite  aged 
and  died  near  Newark,  Delaware.  They  had 
several  daughters,  one  of  them,  now  Mrs.  Mary 
Smith,  lives  at  22d  and  Pine  streets,  Philadel¬ 
phia. 


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5th  Gen. — Joseph,  brother  of  John  and  Daniel, 
was  born  in  Honeybrook  township,  Chester 
County,  Pa.  Had  six  children  :  William,  Isaac, 
Abner,  Daniel,  Elizabeth  and  Ann. 

5th  Gen. — Vincent  Trego,  ninth  child  of  Wil¬ 
liam,  was  born  in  Honeybrook  township,  1799; 
died  there  in  1846.  He  married  Lydia  Lewis; 
she  was  born  in  Chester  County,  Pa.,  in  1786; 
died  there  1844.  Vincent  and  his  uncle  Absa¬ 
lom  married  sisters. 

4th  Gen. — Eli,  son  of  Joseph  Trego,  was  born 
in  Honeybrook  township,  Chester  County,  in 
1766,  and  died  there  in  1825.  He  had  seven 
children  :  James,  Joseph,  Eli,  Eliza,  Maria,  Elsie, 
and  Matilda.  Eliza  married  John  Mast,  and  re¬ 
moved  to  Urbana,  Ohio.  Had  several  children. 
Maria  married  Gotlieb  Gibler,  or  Ceibler  ;  moved 
to  Vincent  township,  Chester  County,  Pa.,  still 
lives  there  ;  have  several  children.  Elsie  mar¬ 
ried  Hiram  Killian.  They  live  at  Cupola,  Ches¬ 
ter  County,  Pa.,  and  have  several  children. 

Matilda  married  Peter  Trego,  son  of - .  Had 

one  child,  a  daughter  Mary,  who  married  James 
Grow,  and  now  lives  at  Wagontown,  Chester 
County,  Pa. 

These  brothers,  James  and  Eli,  both  married 


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and  moved  to  Hinkletown,  Lancaster  County, 
Pa.  James  died  1 88 1.  Joseph  P.,  their  brother, 
and  son  of  Eli,  was  born  near  Honeybrook, 
Chester  County,  Pa.,  December  31st,  1800;  died 
March  12th,  1878.  He  married  Mary  Dunwodie, 
March  2d,  1824;  she  died  October  28th,  1864. 
December  20th,  1866,  he  married  a  second  time 
to  Maria  Valette ;  she  died  June  13th,  1871. 
Had  no  children  by  last  wife,  but  four  by  the 
first ;  namely:  Eli  D.,  James  G.,  William  P.  and 
Mary  G. 

5th  Gen. — Eli  D.,  son  of  Eli  and  grandson  of 
Joseph,  was  born  in  Chester  County,  Pennsyl¬ 
vania,  January  26th,  1826;  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  Atkins,  Janu¬ 
ary  13th,  1859.  They  have  four  children  living, 
and  one  dead,  which  died  in  infancy;  their 
names  are :  Mary  E.,  born  October  25th,  1859; 
Joseph  A.,  born  October  2d,  1862  ;  Eli  D.,  born 
February  24th,  1865,  and  George  W.,  born 
November  8th,  1866.  They  reside  at  Isabella, 
Chester  County,  Pennsylvania.  No  records. 

James  G.,  son  of  Eli,  was  born  in  Chester 
County,  Pennsylvania,  June  25th,  1828;  never 
married;  lives  on  the  old  homestead  of  224  acres, 
which  his  father  purchased  of  A.  Neasbit  and 


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wife,  in  1830.  James  G.  has  in  his  possession 
some  of  the  old  William  Penn  deeds,  with  the 
seals  and  ribbons. 

William  P.,  son  of  Eli,  was  born  in  Chester 
County,  Pennsylvania,  October  30th,  1830;  mar¬ 
ried  Elizabeth  A.  Grow,  January  20th,  1864. 
They  had  nine  children.  He  now  resides  at 
Brandywine  Manor,  Chester  County,  Pennsyl¬ 
vania — his  native  place. 

Children  of  William  P.  and  Elizabeth  Grow 
Trego : 

Girl,  July  1st,  1874;  born  dead. 

Boy,  August  nth,  1875  ;  born  dead. 

Girl,  October  28th,  1879;  born  dead. 

Mary  Jane,  born  November  12th,  1862. 

Laura  Eliza,  born  March  15th,  1866. 

Emma  Kate,  born  October  2d,  1868. 

Cora  Edna,  born  May  18th,  1871. 

Joseph  P.,  born  August  6th,  1876. 

Mabel  Grace,  born  October  15th,  1880. 

5th  Gen. — Mary  Jane,  daughter  of  Eli,  and 
sister  of  William  P.,  was  born  in  Chester  County, 
Pennsylvania,  October  17th,  1835;  died  January 
1 6th,  1845. 

Eli,  son  of  Eli,  and  brother  of  William  P.,was 
born  1826.  No  record. 


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Genealogy  Unknown. 

Near  Cambridge,  Dorchester  County,  Mary¬ 
land,  are  two  families  by  the  name  of  Trego. 
William  H.  Trego,  of  that  place,  informs  me 
that  his  grandfather,  Leven  Trego,  came  from 
England,  where  he  left  two  brothers  many  years 
ago,  and  settled  in  Dorchester  County,  Mary¬ 
land.  He  left  several  children — though  1  only 
know  the  names  of  two  :  Thomas  James,  and 
James.  Several  of  the  descendants  of  James  are 
now  living  in  this  city ;  one  of  his  daughters  is 
the  wife  of  Captain  William  Hubbard,  22  North 
Ann  street,  and  a  widowed  daughter  resides 
with  Mrs.  Hubbard.  One  of  his  sons,  George 
W.  Trego,  now  resides  at  102  Harlem  avenue, 
in  this  city;  he  was  born  in  Dorchester  County, 
Maryland,  October  9th,  1828;  married  Rebecca 
Kinnamon,  of  Talbot  County,  Maryland,  October 
15th,  1861;  she  was  born  March  3d,  1841.  He 
is  a  master  sailmaker.  They  have  two  children, 
Ella  Isolino,  born  May  1st,  1863;  not  married, 
and  James  Henry,  born  August  24th,  1865.  He 
is  a  clerk  in  the  employ  of  George  H.  Edgar  & 
Co. 

Thomas  James,  son  of  Leven  Trego,  born  in 
Dorchester  County,  Maryland  ;  married  Susan 


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Lamdin,  of  that  county.  They  had  eight  chil¬ 
dren  :  William  Henry, born  September  26th,  1835  ; 
married  Sarah  E.,  daughter  of  Greenberry 
Vickers,  March  6th,  i860.  They  have  seven 
children:  Mary  E.,  born  i860  ;  Sarah,  born  1862; 
William,  Thomas,  Anne,  born  1866;  Susan  and 
Rosa. 

Leven,  Jr.,  son  of  Leven,  born  in  1837;  mar¬ 
ried  Sarah  C.  Wheatley,  of  same  county,  January 
1st,  i860.  They  have  three  children  :  Emma, 
born  1863;  Arthur,  1865,  and  Elmer,  born  1872. 

Sarah  A.,  daughter  of  Leven,  Sr.,  born  in 
1839;  died  young. 

John,  son  of  Leven,  Sr.,  born  in  1841.  His 
brother,  Thomas  James,  was  born  in  1844  ;  never 
married.  Their  brothers,  Joseph  R.,  born  in 
1847  !  Charles  W.,  born  in  1854,  never  married  ; 
their  sister,  Sarah  E.,  born  December  1st,  1849; 
married  James  T.  Brown,  of  Baltimore,  and  now 
resides  at  60  S.  Ann  street  in  this  city ;  they  have 
two  children. 

There  is  a  John  Trego  who  lives,  and  has  been 
a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  many  years,  near  Bel- 
air,  Plarford  County,  Md.  He  has  quite  a  family. 
I  tried  several  times  to  get  his  genealogical 
record,  but  he,  like  many  other  members  of  the 
family,  failed  to  furnish  it. 


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Taken  from  a  Pennsylvania  paper. 

J.  Calvin  Noggles  and  Emma  C.  Trego,  were 
married  in  Centreville,  Cumberland  County,  Pa., 
February  22d,  1883,  by  the  Rev.  C.  E.  Keller  of 
the  Lutheran  Church.  I  tried  in  vain  to  get  an 
account  of  Emma  C.  and  her  family. 


This  completes  my  task.  Here  I  take  leave 
of  you,  dear  reader,  for  a  season,  ere  I  resume 
the  pen.  Time,  that  unerring  interpreter,  will, 
no  doubt,  alter  to  some  extent  my  work.  May 
God  defend  us,  save,  and  unite  our  people. 


Furnished  me  by  Dr.  E.  Michener,  of  Chester 
County,  Pa.,  grandson  of  Meshack  Michener, 
too  late  to  insert  in  its  proper  place. 

Mary,  daughter  of  John  Trego,  married  Me- 
shack  Michener,  at  Falls  Monthly  Meeting, 
Bucks  County,  Pa.,  in  1761.  He  was  born  in 
1737,  died  1836,  aged  99.  Upon  the  death  of 
his  first  wife,  he  married  Mary  Brooks.  He  had 
ten  children,  five  by  each  wife,  though  only  nine 
are  given. 


Children  of  Meshack  and  Mary  Trego  Michener. 

Isaiah,  born  1762,  died  1835,  aged  73;  mar¬ 
ried  Margaret  Shepherd. 

Joyce,  born  1764,  died  in  infancy. 

Mary,  born  1767,  died  in  infancy. 

Rachel,  born  1769;  married  Aaron  Malms- 
bury. 

Meshack,  born  1771;  married  Mary  Shep¬ 
herd. 

Children  by  last  Wife. 

Elisha,  born  1773,  died  1835. 

Nathan,  born  1775,  died  1866,  aged  91  ;  mar¬ 
ried  Sophia  Chrisman ;  she  died,  aged  79. 

Thomas,  born  1778  ;  married  Mary  Bradshaw. 

Marmaduke,  born  1780;  married  Hannah 
Stradling,  born  1783. 


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